There’s a postage stamp-sized place in Paris’ 16th arrondissement that houses a collection of luxury goods that would be the envy of any upscale boutique. Louis Vuitton monogram-covered handbags and wallets crowd shelves with Hermès scarves and ties, and shoes by the likes of Burberry and J.M. Weston. Well-dressed mannequins wear suits from YSL and [...]
Entries from July 29th, 2009
News: Paris’ house of knock-offs
July 29th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: Birkins · Burberry · Counterfeiting · Dior · Hermes · Lacoste · Luxury Goods · LV · Paris
News: Fake DVDs seized at Staffordshire car boot sale
July 29th, 2009 No Comments
THOUSANDS of fake DVDs, including the new Harry Potter blockbuster, have been seized at a Midland car boot sale by trading standards officers.
The Half-Blood Prince, which is not due to be released on DVD until Christmas, was discovered in a haul of more than 10,000 discs seized as part of a crackdown aimed at driving [...]
Tags: Brocton · CDs · cigarettes · Counterfeiting · DVDs · Harry Potter · Nintendo Wii
News: Fake and Substandard Drugs Threaten Malaria Treatment in Cambodia
July 28th, 2009 No Comments
TASANH, Cambodia | A stream of poor-quality and counterfeit malaria drugs coming into Cambodia is contributing to a growing resistance to treatment for the disease near the Thai-Cambodian border.
Many of the drugs are cheaply made and don’t contain the right chemistry, or are stored at incorrect temperatures, while others are deliberate fakes that have authentic-looking [...]
Tags: Cambodia · Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals · Malaria · Tuberculosis · WHO
News: Fake goods come at high price
July 27th, 2009 No Comments
The owners of a Shanghai store, which last year captured publicity for reportedly selling counterfeit goods to Canadian singer Celine Dion, were yesterday ordered to pay 500,000 yuan (US$73,201) in compensation to luxury goods maker Louis Vuitton Malletier over trademark infringement.
A Taiwanese man, surnamed Lin, and his wife, Wu Beiwen, owners of Shanghai Zhongwen Trade [...]
Tags: Celine Dion · Counterfeiting · LV · Shanghai
News: Counterfeit drugs continue to threaten lives in developing countries
July 27th, 2009 No Comments
Getting prescription medication into developing countries is hard enough. But what if the drugs that actually make it there don’t work? Or worse, they cause further harm?
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated three years ago that nearly one in four pharmaceutical drugs sold in the developing world is counterfeit, the New York Times reported this [...]
Tags: Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals · Developing Countries · Ghana · Viagra · WHO
Newss: China battles against counterfeiting, copyright violations
July 27th, 2009 No Comments
BEIJING: China was recently named one of the world’s worst offenders in counterfeiting and copyright violations. But the country’s progress in protecting intellectual property (IP) rights has also been widely acknowledged.
The Silk Street Market in Beijing is popular with both locals and tourists. It is famous, or infamous, for its wide selection of fake branded [...]
Tags: china · Counterfeiting · IP Infringement · Luxury Goods
News: Steve Madden sues EBay over watches
July 23rd, 2009 No Comments
CHICAGO, July 21 (Reuters) – Footwear and accessories maker Steven Madden Ltd (SHOO.O) sued online marketplace giant eBay Inc (EBAY.O) on Tuesday over purportedly fake watches being sold on its web site.
The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan claims that unlicensed watches bearing the Steven Madden brand name made by former licensee Vestal [...]
Tags: Counterfeiting · Ebay · Steve Madden · Vestal Watch · Watches
News: Bradford shop owner sold counterfeit goods
July 23rd, 2009 No Comments
The former owner of a mobile phone shop in Bradford has been convicted by magistrates today for selling counterfeit goods.
Trading Standards Officers found 531 fake mobile phone accessories when they raided Talk N Text – the trading name of Best Express Ltd – in Lilycroft Road in January last year.
The items included lanyards, strings, covers [...]
Tags: Counterfeiting · DKNY · Gucci · LV · mobile phones · Nokia
News: Microsoft wins piracy lawsuit
July 22nd, 2009 No Comments
China’s Do-It-Yourself personal computer market has proven a chronic headache for Microsoft Corp, which is continually battling the use of pirated software.
But the US-based software giant won a skirmish this month, when a Beijing court ruled against a major custom PC dealer accused of pre-installing pirated Microsoft Windows and Office software.
On July 2, Beijing No [...]
Tags: china · Computer Software · IPR · Microsoft · PC · Pirated Software
News: Amazon to World: We are Not Evil Totalitarians
July 21st, 2009 No Comments
A mini-scandal broke last week when it was reported that Amazon deleted copies of certain novels from its e-reader, the Kindle, including George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984, the dystopian tome where “Big Brother” controls information flow. Creepy! Information-controlling companies want to avoid the label Orwellian, but it certainly doesn’t help when the thing you’re [...]
