Clothing & Accessories

• Jamaica destroys $60m-worth of counterfeit goods

  02-Jul-21 - Fake Kipling bags, and copycat clothing and shoes from brands like Jordan, Puma, Adidas and Nike were shredded.

• Markem-Imaje grows in authentication again with Blue Bite buy

  28-Jun-21 - Deal comes 18 months after Markem-Imaje agreed to buy serialization and authentication specialist Systech.

• OECD says fakes make up 2.5 per cent of global trade

  27-Jun-21 - Update to the highly cited figures show that the trade in counterfeit/pirated goods "has remained significant."

• Russia's Chestny ZNAK offers prizes for scanning codes

  23-Jun-21 - Russia tries to boost scanning rates for its product coding system by offering a 1m-rouble jackpot to consumers.

• One in 10 EU consumers bought fakes in 2020; report

  20-Jun-21 - Another third of Europeans wondered whether a product they had bought was original, according to the EUIPO study.

• Cadica bolsters brand protection with Etichetta 2000 takeover

  18-Jun-21 - Italian garment label specialist offers an anti-counterfeit service based on personalised QR codes and holographic strips.

• UK police nab Euro 2020 counterfeit seller

  15-Jun-21 - Thousands of fake football shirts worth £80,000 were seized at properties in Wembley on eve of Euro 2020 finals.

• Aussie designer deploys anti-counterfeit sewing thread

  09-Jun-21 - Sara Caverley will use recycled sewing thread – tagged with DNA markers to deter counterfeiters – in her footwear range.

• eBay extends authentication service to luxury bags

  09-Jun-21 - Service applies to handbags worth $500 or more from 16 luxury brands including Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Hermès, etc.

• Nike partners with CBP to fight counterfeit imports

  21-May-21 - Alliance will put an authentication technology through its paces in preventing counterfeit Nike goods entering the US.

• Atari sues art marketplace Pixels, claiming counterfeiting

  14-May-21 - Complaint says Pixels.com and fineartmerica.com are allowing third-party sellers to list infringing products.

• US court mulls Chinese bank liability in Nike fakes lawsuit

  11-May-21 - The case stems from Nike's victory in a 2017 lawsuit in which it won $1.8bn in damages against counterfeit sellers.

• Counterfeiters turning attention to smaller businesses, says study

  29-Apr-21 - Four out of every five small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) suffer from counterfeits and brand abuse on the Internet.

• $4.3m in fake jewellery seized by Cincinnati CBP

  28-Apr-21 - Shipment infringed IP of brands including Tiffany, Pandora, Cartier, Bvlgari, Dior, Gucci, Chanel, Rolex, Versace, and Tous.

• Gucci teams up with Facebook on counterfeit lawsuit

  27-Apr-21 - Natalia Kokhtenko is accused of running a business selling fake Gucci- branded handbags, shoes, clothing, and accessories.

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