Anti-Counterfeiting Services
Brand owners spend significant effort and expense building recognizable marks and brands as well as creating high-quality goods. The better a product becomes and the more well-known to consumers, the greater chance of knock-offs becoming an issue. In efforts to combat revenue loss and potential for brand tarnishment, brand owners seek effective and efficient anti-counterfeiting solutions.
Our intellectual property (IP) enforcement lawyers advise clients on solving counterfeiting, piracy, and infringement problems that plague US companies and brand owners.
Results-Based Billing Model for IP Enforcement Programs
Due to the unique nature of counterfeiting, we have developed comprehensive anti-counterfeiting enforcement solutions through customized proactive programs based on alternative billing models beyond the billable hour. While we still provide services based on hourly billing, we have found that hybrid and success fee arrangements tend to promote better aligned interested between the firm and our clients. We are open to considering any pricing model, including flat fee retainer arrangements for our anti-counterfeiting programs.
Industry-Focused Anti-Counterfeiting and IP Portfolio Enforcement Programs
While we provide IP enforcement solutions to a wide range of industries, we have significant experience helping clients in the retail, technology, sporting goods/outdoor goods, fashion, luxury brands, ecommerce, consumer products, and software industries. See our Solutions page for more information on the patent industry solutions we provide as well as case studies.
Anti-Counterfeiting Services and Infringement Solutions
Our anti-counterfeiting clients receive the full range of the firm’s services: litigation, intellectual property, transactional, and international law.
Our anti-counterfeiting team of lawyers and other professionals provide IP enforcement services to address broad range of issues, including:
Blog Posts and Resources that May be of Interest
8 Steps to Structure Effective and Efficient IP Enforcement Programs
Protecting Brands From Infringement and Knock Offs - Part II Advanced Techniques
Brand Gating on Amazon: A Way to Help Prevent Counterfeiting
Does Your Amazon Package Include Counterfeit Goods? Preventing Organized Retail Crime
Counterfeit or Unsafe Product on Amazon: Unauthorized Seller Tactics
See our initial post, Importance of Intellectual Property Rights: Increasing Market Share Through Stopping Knockoffs and Infringements for a complete overview of the series:
Step 1: Identifying and Quantifying Losses Caused by Knockoffs and Infringement
Step 2: Marshaling Intellectual Property Assets to Combat Knockoffs and Infringement
Step 3: Designing the IP-Enforcement Program to Increase Market Share by Stopping Knockoffs and Infringement
Step 4: Implementing the IP-Enforcement Program
Step 5: Optimizing the IP-Enforcement Program with Metrics
Step 6: Growing Future Market Share through Proactive IP Strategy
You can access additional information on our Brand Protection Strategies and Resources page.
Stay up to date with intellectual property law developments and tips for anti-counterfeiting measures with our Ideate Intellectual Property Law Blog
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Online Brand Protection
The need for vigilant online brand protection is ever increasing. This is due to the growing online seller platforms providing easy methods to market and sell. As such, creating good breeding grounds for counterfeiters hoping to make a quick buck off unsuspecting consumers. Therefore, programs for anti-counterfeiting solutions should be robust enough to get results, yet tailored to meet business priorities and fit budgetary needs.
Intellectual property attorneys can assist with creation of custom online brand protection programs to fit your specific online brand protection needs.
Trademark Counterfeiting Enforcement
Building trademark portfolios, especially worldwide, can be extremely expensive and become valuable business assets. Therefore, protection of trademarks and brand names is important in maintaining a high level of consumer trust and goodwill built around the marks. Trademark counterfeiting enforcement programs should work to protect a brand as well as help prevent misuse.
Our trademark attorneys help clients develop strategies and implement programs for trademark counterfeiting enforcement as part of our anti-counterfeiting solutions legal services.
Software Counterfeiting Enforcement
Software companies lose tons of revenue each year due to counterfeit software sales. Therefore, software rights holders rely on software counterfeiting enforcement and protection programs to protect their brands and help prevent piracy.
Our attorneys work closely with software companies to develop effective software counterfeiting enforcement and misappropriation programs. We offer custom tailored services, as part of our anti-counterfeiting solutions legal services.
Copyright Counterfeiting Enforcement
Copyright registration is just one step in protecting creative works from duplication and piracy. So, copyright owners should implement copyright counterfeiting protection and enforcement programs to protect against copyright misappropriation.
Our Copyright attorneys help create effective anti-counterfeiting solutions for enforcement and protection of copyrights.
Online Seller Enforcement
Companies utilizing resellers for expanding distribution have an added layer of caution in enforcing intellectual property rights. For example, monitoring of both reseller activities and unauthorized sellers becomes necessary in addition to counterfeit infringement.
As an extension to our anti-counterfeiting solutions services, we offer online seller enforcement strategies and proactive measures.
Luxury Brand Protection
Brand owners invest significant money and effort to create unique, high quality products. Therefore, protection from counterfeiting offenders is detrimental in maintaining business goodwill and the reputation of goods as high-end luxury product.
Our IP attorneys help clients discover appropriate anti-counterfeiting solutions for luxury brand protection.
Gray Market Goods Enforcement
Companies selling product worldwide often have manufacturing facilities in various countries, for sale at different price points. This attracts unrelated third parties seeking to profit unfairly into dealing in gray market goods. Therefore, brand owners seek solutions to gray market goods enforcement against infringers.
To help prevent gray market sales, we help with monitoring of reseller activities, as well as identification of unauthorized sellers, C&Ds and take-downs. Our attorneys also review and draft agreements for use with manufacturers, resellers, and distributors.
Customs Border Protection
Importation of counterfeit and pirated product is often found through inspection at Customs Border Protection (CBP). Our intellectual property attorneys assist with obtaining the most of CBP through registration and creation of product guides as well as training guidelines.
Taking advantage of the options available with Customs Border Protection can enhance other efforts taken as anti-counterfeiting solutions.