Kari Kammel[1], 2021 In 2020, Congress initially introduced a series of bill designed to help stem the sale of trademark counterfeits by third party providers on e-commerce platforms, including the SHOP SAFE Act, INFORM Consumers Act and the SANTA Act.[2] While a comprehensive multi-faceted approach to combat counterfeiting is vital,[3] one of the most important …
Assessing and Building on Four Decades of Product Counterfeiting Research Read the full report Brandon A. Sullivan, Fiona Chan, Roy Fenoff and Jeremy Wilson, 2017 For researchers to advise efforts to combat product counterfeiting, they must first establish what is known about it. As a first step in doing so, A-CAPP Center researchers conducted a …
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Explaining Consumer Demand for Counterfeit Goods: Social Learning or Low Self-Control? Zoltán Levente Fejes, 2017 Two competing theoretical explanations for the knowing purchase of counterfeit goods are Akers’ Social Learning Theory and Gottfredson and Hirschi’s Low Self-Control Theory. This A-CAPP Center Backgrounder reports results of a survey among Romanian university students about volitional purchase of …
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Partnerships and the Battle Against Product Counterfeits Brandon Sullivan, Rod Kinghorn and Jeremy Wilson, 2017 Partnerships between brand owners, governments, academics, consumers, and other stakeholders are essential to tackling the pervasive and persistent global problem of product counterfeiting. This Backgrounder highlights the importance of these partnerships, the need for widespread recognition of the shared nature …
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Counterfeit Parts in the U.S. Department of Defense Supply Chain Brandon Sullivan and Jeremy Wilson, 2016 Counterfeit parts in the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) supply chain threaten national security by compromising critical military operations and placing the lives of military service members at risk. These counterfeits are difficult to identify and are reported inconsistently …
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Virtual Communities as Guardians Against Product Counterfeiting in the Athletic Footwear Industry George Adams, 2016 As legitimate online commerce has grown, so has the use of the Internet for distributing and selling counterfeit goods. Goods with extended supply chains or limited supply that lead consumers to purchase them through secondary markets can be particularly vulnerable …
Measuring Product Counterfeiting: Insights from Current Research and Practice Jeremy Wilson and Brandon Sullivan, 2016 Estimates of product counterfeiting vary widely in what they measure and when, how, and where they measure it. Yet measurements remain vital both for showing the extent of counterfeiting as well as determining how to address it. A-CAPP Center researchers …
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The Global Risk of Product Counterfeiting: The Facilitators of the Criminal Opportunity Jeremy M. Wilson and Rod Kinghorn, 2015 Product counterfeiting represents a growing, global risk that poses many negative consequences for consumers, businesses, governments, national security, the economy, and society. Research suggests that the first step in formulating effective strategies to combat such crime …
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The Nexus Between Terrorism and U.S. Product Counterfeiting Brandon Sullivan, Steve Chermak, Jeremy Wilson and Joshua Freilich, 2014 Terrorists have increasingly been linked to product counterfeiting, but evidence for this connection has been mostly anecdotal and speculative. We use the Extremist Financial Crime Database and the Michigan State University Center for Anti-Counterfeiting and Product Protection’s …
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The Role of Packaging in Brand Protection David Howard, 2014 Many organizations today have come to realize that a first line of defense against counterfeiting of their brands lies with a speedy change in processes, products, and packaging used to make their products available in the Global marketplace. It is never pleasant when you discover …
