Counterfeit

• Product counterfeiting

• Drug counterfeiting

• Counterfeiting

• Recent Developments with Degree Mills: Accreditation Mills and Counterfeit Diploma and Transcript Operations

Related recent events include: * USSS undercover operation "Gold Seal" against operators of St. Regis University, Monrovia, Liberia, and Spokane, WA (and corruption of foreign government officials) * Explosion in internet dms offering degrees based wholly on "credit for life experience" * Increase in number of internet "degree brokers" representing various schools * Increased number of cd&t Web sites in the Richmond, va, vicinity * Creation of numerous new ams used to support the plethora of new Internet dms * Emergence of several "look-alike" organizations designed to confuse the public (e.g., ascaor; cohl; DETQj IDETC; THLC) * Arrest and conviction (or civil charges against) operators of: * LaSalle University, Man deville, LA; * Columbia State University, Métairie, LA, and San Cle...

• College and University
• Vol. 85 Nbr. 2, October 2009

• Counterfeit Markets

SHANGHAI and BEIJING, Nov. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Golf Manufacturers Anti-Counterfeiting Working Group announced today the completion of multiple strategic raids on China-based counterfeiting operations, where the group worked with local law enforcement officials to seize over 25,000 counterfeit golf products. The raids took place at stores in two of the world's most heavily trafficked ; Pudong Yatai Xin Yang Market in Shanghai and Ya Xiu Market in Beijing. The recent raids demonstrate the group's ongoing commitment to, and success with enforcement efforts. The group conducted four raids seizing more than 80,000 counterfeit golf products in the month of September alone. The number and location of these recent raids sends a strong message to counterfeiters t...

• U.S. Newswire
• November 02, 2011

• 17 CFR 249.1200 - Form X-17F-1A—Report for missing, lost, stolen or counterfeit securities.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 17: Commodity and Securities Exchanges

• House Probes Policies On Counterfeit Military Electronics

WASHINGTON - Lawmakers from both parties are challenging the Department of Homeland Security over policies that they say impede efforts to stop imports of counterfeit electronics used in military devices. The electronic chips, which act like the brain for many electronic devices, are one of the most counterfeited parts in the Pentagon's supply chain, according to a Commerce Department report last year. That leaves the military technology that depends on them at a great risk of failure, which experts say has huge national security implications.

• Sunday Gazette-Mail
• August 01, 2011

• Port Sleuths On the Trail of Counterfeit Goods

SEATTLE - Laundry soap did seem an unusual product for someone to counterfeit. Rolex watches, Gucci handbags, Tiffany jewelry or Windows operating systems are the kinds of goods that you imagine in the counterfeit world.

• Sunday Gazette-Mail
• January 10, 2011

• Counterfeit Products: Can Consumers Identify the Fakes?

Due to the technological advances and globalization, new challenges have emerged for companies looking to defend their products, their brands, and their business. The manufacturing industry has been at the forefront of adopting new techniques to stem the tide against counterfeiters, but have only had limited success in reducing the amount of counterfeit products entering the market. Despite the increase in attention by academicians to the demand-side issue of product counterfeiting, practitioners have yet to find practical benefit in terms of reduced demand based on the results of the research studies conducted to date. Furthermore, the research endeavors to date assume that consumers can differentiate between genuine and counterfeit products. The authors replicated the methodology desi...

• Competition Forum
• Vol. 6 Nbr. 2, July 2008

• Monster's New Alliance with U.K. Trading Standards Service Results in Largest-Ever U.K. Seizure of Counterfeit Monster Goods ; Hundreds of Illegal Products Seized; Continuing U.K. Alliance with Tss Is Part of Monster's Global Fight to Halt Damaging Counterfeit Sales

BRISBANE, Calif., April 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Monster, a leading manufacturer of cables, headphones and consumer electronics accessories based in Brisbane, California, U.S.A., in conjunction with a member group of the United Kingdom Trading Standards Service (TSS), today announced the largest seizure ever of counterfeit Monster products in the U.K. The raid, which took place in February 2011 in England and resulted in the seizure of hundreds of counterfeit Monster products, is the result of a recently announced exclusive alliance between Monster and the TSS aimed at identifying, investigating and prosecuting criminals in the U.K. dealing in illegal product sales. David Tognotti, Monster's General Manager & Vice President of Operations noted: "Counterfeits hurt everyone, including reta...

• U.S. Newswire
• April 05, 2011

• Md. Court of Special Appeals Case Summaries: May 30, 2011

Criminal Law Counterfeit currency

• The Daily Record (Baltimore)
• June 06, 2011

• Store Owner Charged with Selling Counterfeit Goods

PETERSBURG - The owner of two Washington Street stores has been arrested by federal agents after he was indicted on charges of selling counterfeit goods. Belal Amin Alsaidi, 30, was arrested Wednesday in Buffalo, N.Y., after a federal grand jury in Richmond indicted him on one count of conspiracy and three counts of trafficking in counterfeit goods.

• Progress - Index, The; Petersburg, Va.
• September 22, 2011

• 19 CFR 133.21 - Articles bearing counterfeit trademarks.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 19: Customs Duties