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• Chinese anti-counterfeit company lists in Australia

  14-Jul-14 - Chinese covert tracer company YPB will shortly list on the Australian Securities Exchange after closing a $3.5m IPO.

• Spike in pharmaceutical thefts in 2013

  09-Mar-14 - There was a steep rise in pharma thefts in the US last year, but the number of incidents across all sectors stayed level.

• Counterfeiting feeds organised crime, says UNODC

  15-Jan-14 - A UNODC public awareness campaign on counterfeit goods says they provide organised criminals with $250bn a year.

• China's enforcement of IPR "remains weak", says USTR

  14-Jan-14 - China has revised many of its intellectual property laws but is still struggling to enforce brand owner rights, says USTR.

• Fake tobacco vaporisers a health risk, warns Ploom

  28-Dec-13 - A US manufacturer of tobacco vaporisers and e-cigarettes has warned that counterfeit copies of its products could be harmful.

• Anti-counterfeit technology news in brief

  19-Dec-13 - Technology updates from De La Rue, ITW, Applied DNA Sciences, InkSure Technologies, Covectra and Kezzler.

• China to make details of counterfeit cases public

  22-Nov-13 - China is to make details of IPR violations public once they have passed through the legal system to boost transparency.

• UK report criticizes Border Force’s failure to seize fakes

  21-Nov-13 - Report criticizes UK customs officials for not doing enough to intercept small packages of counterfeit goods.

• In brief: Xerox in line for Michigan tax stamp award

  18-Oct-13 - The US state of Michigan is considering awarding a $9.6m tax stamp contract to Xerox amid allegations of bias in the selection process.

• Counterfeit clippings: news in brief

  10-Sep-13 - Two convictions for counterfeiting offenses, three fake goods seizures in the US plus a warning on professional kitchen knives.

• EU customs seizures down in 2012

  12-Aug-13 - EU customs detained around 40m products suspected of infringing IP rights in 2012, around a third the number seized in 2011.

• Interpol-led blitz takes fight to counterfeiters

  19-Jul-13 - More than 6,000 people have been arrested in an Interpol-led crackdown on illicit trade and counterfeiting.

• Domino 1H revenues rise, but costs peg back profits

  25-Jun-13 - Domino sees healthy sales rise in first-half figures, but slides to a pretax loss on increased R&D and operating costs.

• Illicit cigarette gang indicted in US

  15-Apr-13 - Three men have been charged in the US for smuggling millions of counterfeit and untaxed Phillip Morris cigarettes into the country.

• Fluorescent label used to spot real seeds

  01-Feb-13 - Chinese researchers have developed a fluorescent labelling method to differentiate genuine and fake seeds.

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