Topics: Education/Awareness

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, 2020 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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Pharmaceutical Counterfeiting in the US: Differentiating Dimensions of the Risk

Justin Heinonen and Jeremy Wilson, 2011 The creation of a product counterfeiting database highlights variation in known incidents of counterfeit pharmaceuticals across several important dimensions. By understanding how these incidents differ, researchers can provide empirical insights into the problem, develop evidence-based anti-counterfeit strategy and promote awareness to consumers, government and industry. This complex form of product counterfeiting involves offending specialists …

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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 criminology journals …

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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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