Intellectual Property

How can Intellectual Property Right holders protect themselves from counterfeiting and piracy?

Your Intellectual Property is your Name, your Identity, your Reputation, your Profits Infringement harms the most crucial elements of your business

Counterfeit and pirated goods are corrosive to profits, to production, to people – whatever your brand, whichever your market, wherever it is.

Here at Parfitt Cresswell we are skilled and acknowledged experts in combating counterfeiting and piracy. We offer an economic, rapid and effective scheme to prevent imitation products from entering the UK or EU markets.

Counterfeit and pirated goods are intercepted and entry into the UK or EU is prohibited; after verification these goods are detained and destroyed.

The cost is modest – and in many cases there is no charge, this being recouped from the infringer/importer.

After the event insurance may be available.

For more details please contact Anne Chambers on +44(0)207 381 8311 or at anne.chambers@parfittcresswell.com

Protect your Brand and Customers

Counterfeiting – the second oldest profession – is thousands of years old, dating back to at least 27 BC. History’s first known phoney item is a stopper for a Gallo-Roman wine amphora; and ancient Egyptians were adept at faking papyri and jewels.

Today, statistics published on 22 July 2010 by the European Commission show over 43,500 registered cases of detention of goods suspected of infringing Intellectual Property Rights at the EU's external borders. The total annual cost to the EU’s Gross Domestic Product – the market value of all final goods and services produced - runs at around €9 billion. 7% of all world trade is in fake goods – currently £400 billion. The estimated value of counterfeit and pirated merchandise passing through UK online shopping sites alone each year is £800m.

In 2007 more than 79 million counterfeit and pirated goods were seized in the EU, reflecting the fact that seizures involving smaller quantities of counterfeit and pirated goods have risen – and are on the increase.

This proves that swift and forceful action is critically important for ensuring the highest level of protection for industry and consumers.

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