Electronics & Industrial

• Cisco resolves fake transceiver suit with Chinese rivals

  21-Oct-21 - Wolon companies were being sued under trademark infringement, unfair competition and false advertising laws.

• Chinese national gets five years for counterfeit battery scam

  06-Oct-21 - Allen Cai of La Puente was also ordered to pay $9.2m in restitution and $25,000 in fines by a federal judge.

• Implanted atoms create unique ID to authenticate electronics

  19-Sep-21 - The low-cost process relies on creating unique and non-duplicable ID tags by altering the electronic structure of silicon.

• Daimler says online fake part sales increased during pandemic

  14-Sep-21 - Rise occured despite reduction in enforcement operations, with a threefold increase in counterfeits seized online.

• Counterfeit goods worth a massive £500m seized in UK

  13-Sep-21 - Fake designer clothing, shoes, perfume and other goods worth £500m have been seized by police in Manchester, UK.

• Counterfeiters pre-empt another upcoming Apple launch

  01-Sep-21 - The new Apple Watch isn't due to launch until later this year at the earliest, but knock-offs are already available in China.

• Amazon, GoPro team up to sue counterfeiters

  10-Aug-21 - Joint lawsuit charges Chinese defendants with faking the camera maker's accessories, including grips and mounts.

• Rel8 launches tech for direct plastic part marking in US

  19-Jul-21 - The codes are more compact and crisp than can be achieved using traditional methods like laser engraving, it says.

• US consumer agency sues Amazon over unsafe counterfeits

  16-Jul-21 - The suit is focusing on hazardous sleepwear, carbon monoxide detectors and hair dryers solid via the "fulfilled by Amazon" service.

• California man gets two years for fake cell phone parts scam

  12-Jul-21 - Chan Hung Le is thought to have made tens of millions of dollars from the sale of fake Apple, Samsung, and Motorola parts.

• LA man pleads guilty to massive fake laptop battery scam

  30-Jun-21 - Conspirators may have made up to $23.8m from the fraud, which targeted brands like Apple, Dell, HP, and Toshiba.

• 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.

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