Nigeria: SON Seal Two Firms in Anambra Over Counterfeiting
The Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) on Wednesday sealed two factories suspected to be involved in the production of counterfeit and substandard goods in Nsugbe, near Onitsha, in Anambra.Also raided was the popular Menax foam market in Onitsha where mattresses of various brands and other fake items were impounded.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that some of the seized products were imitations of popular brands, including mattresses, shaving sticks, toothbrushes and razor blade.
Lear MoreNew report looks into Global anti-counterfeiting packaging market outlook to 2020
Packaging plays a crucial part in various industries such as food and pharmaceuticals. The most essential method to avoid counterfeiting is secure packaging. Anti-counterfeiting is one of the important processes of secure packaging that prevents copying and confirms the security of products. Manufacturers are minimizing their loss which was mainly occurred due to counterfeiting products with the help of anti-counterfeiting technology.
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Fighting International Counterfeiting
Counterfeit products and services are an international plague. And it is no longer just the United States who is concerned. China’s biggest Internet companies have clamped down on a problem that has hit that nation’s e-commerce market particularly hard. Alibaba, for example, spends more than $16 million yearly fighting counterfeit goods.
http://alextimes.com/2014/10/fighting-international-counterfeiting/
Lear MoreStealth Mark’s Anti-Counterfeiting Technology Ready for Use in Art Galleries & Museums
Wellness Center USA, Inc. (OTCQB:WCUI), today announced that wholly-owned subsidiary StealthCo, Inc. (dba: Stealth Mark) is ready to deploy its premier security technology in art galleries & museums. With brisk forgery activities, 350,000 + pieces of stolen artwork to date, and more than $10 billion in losses, the need for a bulletproof solution has never been greater. StealthMark™ microparticle technology use within art galleries & museums is set to begin in November 2014.
StealthMark™ intelligent microparticle technology is precisely suited to the Art industry because it provides unbreachable security, accurate reference data, unique combinations of covert and overt markings, and track and trace capabilities that can be used on highly valuable pieces of art and objects such as paintings, ancient artifacts, sculptures, historical documents, and more.
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‘Nigeria loses N75b annually to smuggling of textile products’
The National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria (NUTGTWN) has said that Nigeria loses estimated N75 billion revenue annually to smuggling of textile and garment materials.
NUTGTWN stated this in a communiqué it issued after a three-day workshop for trade union organisers, self-employed tailors and small-scale garment makers it organised in Ilorin in collaboration with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES)
Lear MoreChina Counterfeiting: What’s Your Action Plan
Intellectual Property Magazine recently published an article by our lead intellectual property lawyer, Greg Buhyoff. The article is entitled, Action Plan for Asia, and it is described as follows: “Harris Moure’s Gregory F Buhyoff provides pointers on how to implement anti-counterfeiting and misappropriation investigations in China and Vietnam.” Greg practiced law in Vietnam for around ten years. The article is behind a firewall, but we were given permission to publish it and we do so below.
http://www.chinalawblog.com/2014/10/china-counterfeiting-whats-your-action-plan.html
Lear MoreSmuggled Cabbage for Kimchi Season
In many regions of North Korea, a lack of fertilizer and the spring drought have resulted in a poor vegetable crop, making kimjang, the preparation of kimchi [a traditional fermented Korean side dish] for the winter, extremely difficult for residents. “The drought this year was so bad and the cabbage is infested with worms; we’ve got a lot of radishes, but not much else,” a source in Yangkang Province reported to the Daily NK on October 30th. “As kimjang season approaches, people are seriously worried about what they’re going to do.” “Some residents, in collusion with military officers and border guards, are bringing in cabbage and other vegetables from China at night to deal with the issue,” he explained.
http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?num=12500&cataId=nk01500
Lear MoreFTDI stops disabling devices with fake chips
Scottish electronics firm FTDI has backed down from a controversial scheme to use a Windows software update to ‘brick’ devices with counterfeit chips.
The Glasgow-based company – which manufactures a USB-to-serial bridge chipset (FT232) used in many electronic devices – included a new driver in a Windows software update that deactivated the chip by setting its ID code to zero if it was found to be fake.
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1.395 Arrested in Venezuelan Anti-Smuggling Operation
As part of an on-going operation against the hoarding and smuggling of basic goods, Venezuelan authorities have reported that a total of 1,395 people have been arrested for contraband activities.
Of these, 995 remain detained, 332 have been granted bail, 19 will face trial this week and 47 have been freed, said Attorney General Luisa Ortega Diaz on Wednesday.
The anti-smuggling operation was launched by President Nicolas Maduro this summer to prevent food, medical supplies, gasoline and construction materials being illegally transported to neighbouring Colombia, where such goods make a higher profit by avoiding Venezuelan price controls.
http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/10993
Lear MoreNigeria Loses About N15bn Annually To Counterfeit Products – SON
An estimated N15 billion is lost annually to fake or counterfeit products in terms of tax revenue to the government, income to local manufacturers and employment generation to Nigerians.
The director, Legal Services, Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Suleiman Kawo, dropped this hint when the agency hosted the staff and management of the Nigeria Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, who came on a study tour of the agency in Abuja.
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