Electronics & Industrial

• Sutherland to step down as CEO of De La Rue

  30-May-19 - His five-year tenure as chief executive of De La Rue is coming to an end, but he will stay in the role while a successor is sought.

• Sikorsky patents anti-counterfeit component feature

  29-May-19 - Sikorsky patents a feature that can fight counterfeiting by both authenticating parts and preventing copying.

• Prison term for fake airbag cover seller in US

  28-May-19 - A man charged with selling counterfeit airbag covers has been sentenced to six months in prison by a US district judge.

• Amazon wins again in counterfeit liability lawsuit

  27-May-19 - Court rules Amazon shouldn't be held liable for fakes sold via its ‘fulfilled by' service - at least for now.

• Chinese student pleads guilty in fake iPhone scam

  23-May-19 - A student accused of submitting thousands of repair requests to Apple using fake iPhones has pleaded guilty.

• Alibaba counterfeit crackdown “driving fakes to other platforms”

  21-May-19 - Matthew Bassiur, head of Alibaba’s global IP enforcement, discusses the impact of the retail giant's anti-counterfeit programmes.

• CBP seizes counterfeit point of sale machines worth $2.5m

  20-May-19 - US customs has seized 1,351 counterfeit Oracle/Micros point of sale machines worth almost $2.5m.

• Better Business Bureau warns of fake goods explosion

  16-May-19 - One in four US consumers have been caught put buying counterfeit goods online, says a Better Business Bureau report.

• Chinese counterfeit hard drive ring busted

  15-May-19 - Chinese police seize more than 210,000 fake hard drives badged up as genuine products made by Hewlett Packard, IBM.

• NY man gets two years for selling fake car parts

  13-May-19 - A man who put lives at risk by selling fake airbags has been jailed for two years by a US District judge.

• Anonymous firms fuel counterfeit, pirated goods trade

  10-May-19 - Companies with opaque ownership are making enforcement actions against the illicit trade in fake goods challenging.

• CBP finds fake electrical goods at International Falls

  19-Apr-19 - US customs in International Falls have seized around $715,000 worth of counterfeit electronics inside rail containers.

• Dangerous goods “could flood into UK in no-deal Brexit”

  17-Apr-19 - An increase in the number of unsafe products in the UK could get worse if the UK makes a disorderly exit from the EU.

• Students accused of cheating Apple with fake iPhones

  08-Apr-19 - Two US students have been accused of submitting thousands of repair requests to Apple using fake iPhones.

• Electric cables most counterfeited goods in Kenya

  07-Apr-19 - Kenya says electric cables are the most faked product in the market, with alcohol, food and petrol also ranking highly.

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