Topics: Education/Awareness

Responsibility for the Sale of Trademark Counterfeits Online: Striking a Balance in Secondary Liability While Protecting Consumers

Kari Kammel, Jay Kennedy, Daniel Cermack, and Minelli Manoukian, 2021 This article explores: (1) the current state of trademark counterfeits on e-commerce platforms with a focus on the U.S.; (2) the history of case law in the U.S. addressing whether e-commerce platforms incur primary or secondary liability for trademark counterfeiting; (3) strict products liability cases …

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Congress’s Proposed E-Commerce Legislation for Regulation of Third-Party Sellers: Why It’s Needed and How Congress Should Make It Better

Kari Kammel and John Zacharia, 2021 When consumers buy items directly from brand owners online, consumers get exactly what they expect: the real item.  Historically, when consumers bought online through an e-commerce platform, those same genuine items may also come directly from a brand owner or an authorized vendor.  Today, however, third-party sellers have taken …

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Assessing and Building on Four Decades of Product Counterfeiting Research

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 content analysis of 47 articles discussing product counterfeiting and published in criminal justice and …

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Assessing the Developing Knowledge-Base of Product Counterfeiting: A Content Analysis of Four Decades of Research

Brandon Sullivan, Fiona Chan, Jeremy Wilson and Roy Fenoff 2017 Considering the steady and rapid growth of product counterfeiting and the damage it causes to society, it is important for criminology and criminal justice scholars to assist criminal justice officials, industry practitioners, and law makers in understanding the product counterfeiting problem and developing strategies to …

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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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Training for Brand Protection: What Your Team Needs to Know

Jeremy Wilson and Rod Kinghorn, 2014 Brand Protection is a growing concern among corporate executives, particularly those who operate in the global marketplace. Training for those tasked with this function is critical, yet existing resources and knowledge about needs are few. Based on extensive industry interaction, this article identifies the areas in which staff needs training and highlights some …

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The Nexus Between Terrorism and Product Counterfeiting in the United States

Brandon Sullivan, Joshua Freilich, Steven Chermack and Jeremy Wilson, 2014 Terrorists use a wide variety of methods to fund their operations, obtain profits and carry out ideologically driven goals. Terrorist organisations have increasingly been linked to product counterfeiting crimes, but evidence for this connection is mostly anecdotal and speculative, lacking systematic empirical evaluation. This study mines …

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When Crime Defies Classification: The Case of Product Counterfeiting as White-Collar Crime

Jeremy Wilson, Justin Heinonen and John Spink 2014 By most accounts, product counterfeiting, a specific type intellectual property crime, is growing in scope, scale and threat and poses serious economic, social and public health harms. In this article, we improve the conceptual understanding of product counterfeiting by critically exploring the validity and implications of broadly …

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