We develop prevention and enforcement strategies to help protect you against counterfeiters.
On the prevention side, we help you identify and fill gaps in your intellectual property portfolios, protection programs and customs guides that make you vulnerable to counterfeiters seeking to profit from your intellectual property and goodwill. Our Shanghai office can help reduce the risk of intellectual property theft should you choose to manufacture in China. We design custom solutions that range from regional to global in scale, depending on your business objectives. Here are a few examples of prevention services we offer:
- Filing for patent, trademark and copyright protection in the U.S. and counterfeiting hotbeds like China and India.
- Registering trademarks with Chinese Customs to block the exportation of infringing goods.
- Registering trademarks with U.S. Customs to stop infringing goods at the border.
- Negotiating manufacturing, non-disclosure and intellectual property agreements with foreign manufacturers to protect against intellectual property theft.
- Applying for enhanced protection on e-commerce and social media sites, including brand registry and brand gating on Amazon.
If knockoff products do appear on the market, we help stop infringers in their tracks through takedown notices, enforcement actions and litigation. Our team has extensive experience addressing product counterfeiting and piracy both in and out of court. Our services include the following:
- Investigating infringers to discover where they are located.
- Utilizing take-down procedures and cease and desist letters to efficiently remove counterfeit products from e-commerce and social media sites like Amazon, Alibaba, eBay, Twitter and Etsy.
- Negotiating settlements with larger counterfeiters to remove infringing products from the market and compensate for past infringement.
- Litigating against counterfeiters who refuse to stop and obtaining restraining orders and injunctions against persistent patent, trademark and copyright infringers.
- Seizing goods that bear counterfeit trademarks.
