SHANGHAI – Western companies are failing to control rampant fraud in China's anti-counterfeiting industry, which makes it easier for potentially dangerous fakes to reach U.S. consumers. To save money, ...

Amazon has settled an ongoing lawsuit with two influencers who were allegedly selling counterfeit goods on the platform, the company announced this week. Kelly Fitzpatrick and Sabrina Kelly-Krejci ...

Are they genuine or counterfeit? It can be hard to tell. Photo credit: EdNurg-stock.Adobe.com The problem of counterfeit products remains, paradoxically, both enormous and under the radar. One big ...

Today, the market for counterfeit goods is massive and is estimated to be over $1.8 trillion, more than the GDP of most countries. When discussing counterfeit goods, most people think about luxury ...

Every day, more brands fall victim to industrialized counterfeiting. According to the United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, counterfeiting is now the second-largest ...

Supply chain counterfeiting is a universal problem that plagues almost every industry. There are counterfeit electronic components, car parts, consumer goods, pharmaceuticals — even counterfeit wines.

In Counterfeits in the Supply Chain: A Big Problem and it's Getting Worse, we discussed how world markets and global supply distribution chains have created opportunities for companies to grow and ...

Almost €2.8bn in sales is lost every year across Europe due to counterfeiting in the wine and spirits industry, according to EUIPO. The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) found wine ...

These days, companies are employing radio frequency identification to help raise the bar against cloning and counterfeiting. Examples include adding RFID tags to ink cartridges for desktop printers ...

Hubert Pun receives funding from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Grants (No. 430-2022-00517 and No. 435-2022-0271) Western University provides funding as a member of The ...

Lancaster University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. While the word “counterfeit” may conjure up images of fake cash and knock-off handbags, the pharmaceutical industry ...