Trademark Counterfeiting, Product Piracy, and the Billion by Paul Paradise

By Paul Paradise

Called the enterprise crime wave of the twenty first century, trademark counterfeiting and product piracy are all over the world in scope and value the U.S. economic climate billions of greenbacks each year. excessive expertise and the globalization of industrial have made it attainable to counterfeit and pirate a probably unlimited variety of items, from t-shirts, dressmaker denims, movies and books to car and plane elements, and prescribed drugs. The 1995-1996 alternate dispute among the U.S. and China exhibits how critical the matter has develop into for American enterprise and for U.S. diplomatic family. Paradise explores the historical past of counterfeiting and piracy, exhibits how they're performed, and the ideas that U.S. companies are utilizing to wrestle them. With interviews, remark, and anecdotes via company lawyers, company leaders, and personal investigators, this well-written ebook is key for someone drawn to the wear that violations of highbrow estate legislations are causing on international exchange and what's being performed to prevent it.

Paradise lays out the matter in bankruptcy 1 with a transparent clarification of the variations among logos, copyrights, and patents, and the legislation masking each one. In bankruptcy 2 he seems to be on the position performed by means of prepared crime, grey industry items, the inability of highbrow estate legislation, and finally the hazard to U.S. company. He discusses the hot investigations and disputes with China, and its aftermath all through Southeast Asia. bankruptcy four specializes in the knockoff, bankruptcy five on highway peddlers and flea markets (and how retailers are retaliating), and bankruptcy 6 at the monitoring of counterfeiters. The leisure industries and the pharmaceutical industries are then heavily tested. He follows with both complete (and chilling) reports of motor vehicle and airplane elements counterfeiting and piracy in our on-line world. Paradise ends with a glance at what's being performed to counteract the inroads that piracy and counterfeiting have made into the worldwide economic system, and provides a provocative demand extra and higher efforts within the future.

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