Counterfeiting

Couple Unwittingly Tries To Sells Pirated Rosetta Stone Software On eBay

The Huffington Post | Katherine Bindley | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Ebay, Education Software, Counterfeiting, Software-Piracy, Counterfeit Goods, Rosetta-Stone, Software, Rosetta Stone, Ebay-Counterfeit, Money News

A couple from Washington state who are accused of trying to sell counterfeit software say they were only trying to pay for their late nephew's headsto...

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Burberry Earns $100 Million In Counterfeiting Lawsuit

Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Burberry $100 Million, Burberry Trademark Infringement, Burberry Lawsuit, Video, Counterfeiting, Burberry Counterfeiting, Burberry-Counterfeiting-Lawsuit, Burberry $100 Million Lawsuit, Burberry, Style News

What lesson did we learn this week, class? Don't rip off Burberry. Burberry was awarded $100 million in damages this week as Manhattan Federal cour...

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Why Is Homeland Security Cracking Down On Flea Markets?

The Huffington Post | Drew Guarini | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Flea Market, Counterfeiting, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security, Flea Market Raid, Baltimore Flea Market, Small Business News and Trends, Ice, Flea Market Raid Baltimore, Patapsco Flea Market, Video, Small Business News

Could this be the end of the local flea market? In an effort to crack down on counterfeiting, the Department of Homeland Security has begun targeti...

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The Fight Against Faux

Zoe Malliaros | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Ebay, You Can't Fake Fashion, Counterfeiting, Fake-Designer-Bags, Ebay-Counterfeit, Cfda, Teen News

So many brands have their authentic designs replicated by underground merchants who sell the bags for much less. This type of manufacturing has become an issue because the fakes cost a lot less than the real deal.

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Man Charged With Selling Counterfeit Microsoft Software

AP | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Ebay, Fraud, Microsoft Office, Collier Bennett Harper, Illegal Imports, Video, Counterfeiting, Microsoft, Counterfeit Goods, Illegal Importaning, Ap, Technology News

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal prosecutors have charged a Southern California man with illegally importing more than 1,000 counterfeit Microsoft Office ...

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Fed Uncover One Of Largest International Counterfeit Rings Ever

AP | DAVID PORTER | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: New Jersey Counterfeit Operation, Counterfeiting, Feds Uncover Counterfeit Operation, Elizabeth NJ Counterfeit Operation, Fake Bags, Counterfeit Operation, Style News

NEWARK, N.J. — Two groups operating primarily out of China smuggled counterfeit UGG boots, fake designer handbags, cigarettes and other items wo...

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"Buy American" Is Smart, not Stupid

Michele Nash-Hoff | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: National Defense, Counterfeiting, China Product Safety, Buy American, American Manufacturing, Business News

John Stossel's blog article on WorldNetDaily on November 1, "The stupidity of 'Buy American,'" is based on a premise so fallacious that one wonders how a usually intelligent commentator like Stossel could have been taken in by it.

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Geithner: China 'Very, Very Aggressive' In Stealing U.S. Technology

Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Gary Locke, Intellectual Property, Counterfeiting, Yuan, "Indigenous Innovation", Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, China, U.S. International Trade Commission, Business News

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Thursday that China is holding to its decades-old strategy to steal American intellectual property, in...

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New Ways To Spot Fake Whiskies

Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Fake Whiskies, Fake Whisky, Science, Liquor, Counterfeiting, Counterfeit Whisky, Alcohol, Food News

Good Scotch whisky costs way too much to pay for a fake. But high prices also mean that would-be-counterfeiters have a strong incentive to enter the m...

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WATCH: Are You Carrying A Fake Bag?

The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: Fake Purses, Fake Handbags, Purses, Video, Counterfeiting, Counterfeit Goods, Chanel Bags, Fake Bags, Hermes Bags, Style News

Fancy yourself a Chanel 2.55? An Hermes Birkin? Or perhaps a pretty little leather YSL satchel? Just make sure you're not buying a fake. The Wall S...

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Knockoffs And Counterfeits Pose Risks To Your Health

AOL Daily Finance | Loren Berlin | Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Rolex, Counterfeiting, Health Risks, Lead Paint, Attorney General, Health, Louis Vuitton, Black Market, Knockoffs, Video, Business News

Talking about knockoff jackets with Kevin Spreekmeester, the global marketing vice president for outdoor clothing company Canada Goose, is a bit like ...

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Should America Stiff China?

Ian Fletcher | Posted 07.15.2011

Read More: Debt, Intellectual Property, Counterfeiting, China Currency, China, China Economy, Business News

Ethically, does America have the right to stiff China and repudiate our roughly $3 trillion in trade obligations? Frankly, we quite arguably do.

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Time to Wield the Foreign Policy Stick

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Currency Manijpulation, President Obama, Sen. Sherrod Brown, Teddy Roosevelt, Sen. Bob Casey, Sen. Debbie Stabenow, C.F. Martin & Co., Usw, Manufacturing, United Steelworkers, Michael Williams, China, u.s. Steel, International Trade, Counterfeiting, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Trade, Illegal Subsidies, Business News

America plays the role of abused partner in its relationship with China. Although the Asian giant repeatedly injures U.S. industry by violating trade rules, America has responded by pleading and begging for China to stop.

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Son Of 'King Of Counterfeit' Blames Dad For Crimes

Chicago Sun-Times | Blog for Arizona | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arthur Williams III, King of Counterfeit, Counterfeiting, Arthur Williams, Chicago Crime, Chicago News

The son of the "King of Counterfeit" is begging for leniency from a federal judge. That's after following in his father's footsteps and getting bus...

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Online Seizure and Counterfeit Bill: Burning the House to Roast the Pig

Christina Gagnier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: First Amendment, Coica, Congress, Piracy, Counterfeiting, Anticyberquatting, Content, Senate Judiciary Committee, Domain Names, Orrin Hatch, Web 2.0 Summit, Peter Chernin, Technology News

While the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act has been touted as a way to combat counterfeiting online worldwide, its overly excessive means will surely cause harm beyond posing a threat to free speech.

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As They Used to Say in the USSR: We Pretend to Work and They Pretend to Pay Us

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cuba, Food Service, Counterfeiting, Cuba Economy, World News

A labyrinthine network of counterfeiting and resale undermines the dysfunctional centralization and diverts profits to thousands of private pockets in Cuba.

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The New $100: The War on Counterfeiting

Christopher Leibig | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Treasury Department, One Hundred Dollar Bill, Counterfeiting, $100 Bills, Counterfeit Bills, Willem Dafoe, Politics News

Treasury's anti-counterfeiting strategy will work because it seeks as much to prevent counterfeiting from occurring at all as it does to punish culprits. It was not always this way.

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Counterfeit $1 Bills: Recession Desperation

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Counterfeiting, Alaska Counterfeiting, Counterfeit $1 Bills, Counterfeit Alaska, Counterfeit $1, Counterfeit Bills, Business News

JUNEAU, Alaska — Police in Alaska say lawbreakers must be really getting desperate because someone left 13 fake $1 bills in a bar's tip jar &nda...

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Obama Administration Isolated on Issue of Secrecy of IPR Negotiation

James Love | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Acta, Counterfeiting, Intellectual Property, Property Rights, Barack Obama, Business News

The Obama White House has defended the ridiculous position that a sweeping new trade agreement on the enforcement of intellectual property rights should be secret -- from the public.

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Who in U.S. Congress Wants the ACTA Text Public?

James Love | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Counterfeiting, Ustr, Acta, Congress, Politics News

This week some 38 or so countries are holding a secret negotiation in Guadalajara, Mexico, on something called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement...

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Do You Know Who Made Your Rug?

Robyn Griggs Lawrence | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Child Labor, Rugmark, Illegal Child Labor, Sustainable Textiles, Community, International Social and Environmental Accreditation and Labelling Alliance, Rugmark International, Codes of Good Practice, Textile Products, Counterfeiting, Textile Certification Programs, Goodweave-Certified Rugs, Textiles, Goodweave, Environmental Issues, Social Issues, Child Labor Laws, Green News

Is there pain and strife sewn into one of your rugs? With GoodWeave, a new social-responsibility certification, you'll know the moral fabric of your rug down to every single fiber.

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Fake Websites Shut Down By Police In Biggest Takedown Of Its Kind

BBC News | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Online Fraud, Counterfeiting, Fake Websites, Fake Goods, Counterfeit Goods, Fake Uggs, Online Scams, Counterfeit Ugg Boots, Ugg Boots, Technology News

More than 1,000 websites that claim to sell cut-price designer goods have been shut down in the biggest police operation of its kind in the UK. The...

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Fashion's Fight Against Fakes: An Exercise in Hypocrisy

Alexandra Sinderbrand | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Counterfeiting, Fashion, Style, Harper's Bazaar, Balenciaga, Stella McCartney, Prada, Bottega Veneta, Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Alexander McQueen, Style News

Buying an authentic designer goody in lieu its counterfeit alternative isn't a step toward ending sweatshop labor: It's playing into Fashion's latest and greatest, activism-focused marketing initiative.

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Innovation Is Essential to Economic Growth

Tom Donohue | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economy, Global Economy, Piracy, Counterfeiting, World Health Organization, IP Theft, PRO IP Act 2008, 21st Century Jobs, Ngos, Global Patent Filings, Jobs, Innovation, China India Russia, Intellectual Property, IP, US Chamber of Commerce, Business News

America's ability to compete in a global economy and create 21st century jobs for our children depends on the ability to lead in innovation. And the key to innovation is intellectual property.

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Counterfeit Democracy

Robert Weissman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hollywood Studios, Big Pharma, Copyright Infringement, Acta, Counterfeiting, Copyright, Economy, Business News

A new draft global trade treaty may interfere with fair use of copyrighted materials, require Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to monitor all consume...

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