Content Type: A-CAPP Paper Series

A-CAPP Center Product Counterfeiting Database: Insights Into Converging Crimes

Jay Kennedy, 2019 PREFACE This report is a detailed review of product counterfeiting incidents contained within the A-CAPP Center’s Product Counterfeiting Database (PCD), most of which involve pharmaceuticals, electronics, food products, and automotive parts. The PCD contains information about specific product counterfeiting schemes, including information about the offenders who were criminally indicted. Cases contained within …

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The 2017 A-CAPP Center Brand Protection Strategy Summit: Issues and Best Practices in Partnerships, Return on Investment, and E-Commerce

Clifford A. Grammich and Jeremy Wilson, 2018 Since its launch as the first academic body focusing on the complexities of anti-counterfeiting and product protection, the Center for Anti-Counterfeiting and Product Protection (A-CAPP Center) at Michigan State University (MSU) has sought closer partnerships with brand owners. The 2017 Brand Protection Strategy Summit, the third such summit …

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The 2015 A-CAPP Center Brand Protection Strategy Summit: Learning From Partnerships

Clifford Grammich and Jeremy Wilson, 2016 Applying Academic Research Against Product Counterfeiting Though firms have battled product counterfeiting for years, they continue to encounter many of the same questions. “Why does counterfeiting keep coming back?” asked a vice president of anti-counterfeiting operations. “What are the cutting-edge solutions that are out there? I don’t have time …

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The 2016 A-CAPP Center Brand Protection Strategy Summit: Emerging Challenges and Progress

Clifford A. Grammich and Jeremy Wilson, 2016 Since its launch as the first academic body focusing on the complexities of anti-counterfeiting and product protection, the Center for Anti-Counterfeiting and Product Protection (A-CAPP Center) at Michigan State University (MSU) has sought closer partnerships with brand owners. The 2016 Brand Protection Strategy Summit, the second such summit …

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Charting the Course: The Roles and Responsibilities of Ocean-going Transportation Intermediaries in the Distribution of Counterfeit Goods

Jeremy Wilson and Jay Kennedy, 2015 Introduction In July 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice indicted FedEx for allegedly facilitating the shipment of controlled substances from illegal internet pharmacies to American consumers (U.S. DOJ, 2014).  This is not the first time the U.S. Government has brought legal action against a major shipping company for transporting …

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Assessing the Risks of Counterfeiting and Illicit Diversion of Health Care Products

Chris Trent, 2013 Counterfeit and Illicit Diversion Risks in the Health Care Industry Counterfeiting and illicit diversion of health care products are substantial and growing threats.  In 2010, the World Health Organization stated that worldwide sales of counterfeit medicines would top US$ 75 billion, a 90% rise in five years.1   Many countries in Africa and parts …

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Africa’s Counterfeit Pharmaceutical Epidemic: The Road Ahead

Jeremy Wilson and Roy Fenoff, 2009 Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals Counterfeiting, perhaps one of the oldest and most profitable occupations, can be traced back to the times of the ancient Egyptians and early Greeks (Penn, 1979). Advancements in technology have facilitated the production and distribution of larger quantities of counterfeited goods in shorter periods of time, and …

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A Case Study of Melamine as a Counterfeit Food Product Additive in Chinese Human and Animal Food Supply Chain Networks

Robyn Mace, 2009 Melamine Case Study Melamine: Counterfeit Additive in Animal and Human Food Networks 2007-2008 In March 2007, Canadian Menu Foods issued the largest recall of pet food in the history of the United States after it confirmed the presence of the industrial chemical melamine3 in its pet food products through internal testing following …

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