Intellectual Property (Brand) Protection

Illegal use of legitimate companies’ brands, trademarks, and products has increased exponentially in the market place. We have worked with many top global firms in various market sectors (pharmaceutical, electronic goods, automotive, luxury or fashion brands, sports brands, and consumer packaged goods) in significantly reducing this major problem.

We have found that this illegal use can come in many forms like:

• Counterfeiting - unlawful reproduction
• Diversion - unlawful product sales or distribution
• Co-opting - unlawful misrepresentation of ownership or agency

This disturbing trend hurts not only a company’s profit margin but also its worldwide brand reputation and could possibly open up issues of product liability among a host of other ills that come from this form of illicit commerce.

Here are some of the services that we offer under Intellectual Property (Brand) Protection:

• Mapping unlawful supply chain of the products from origination to distribution
• Monitoring E-commerce and traditional commerce
• Tracing illicit product targets including warehouse, storage, transits and retail
• Investigation & Enforcement with the help of enforcement agencies
• Helping clients framing appropriate legal actions
• Litigation support
• Education and Awarenes

Cyber Survelliance

Our Cyber Surveillance Group conducts sweeps of the Internet in an effort to locate both targeted (by the client) and non-targeted (to determine what is generally available at what pricing) of client product.

The sweeps usually covers internet auction sites, wholesaler sites, message boards, broker sites and internet relay chat postings and chat rooms, and so-called “black or gray product sites.”