Shutting Down Phantom Counterfeiters

Law360, New York (March 31, 2009, 12:00 AM ET) -- Gray market, black market and outright counterfeit goods used to be relegated to fly-by-night swap meets and street vendors working out of mobile carts loaded from back alley stockpiles. Counterfeit drugs, high-end shoes or even bootleg cassettes often required a trip across the border.

The challenge for consumers and enforcers in the past was finding the goods and/or knowing where to go. It was not an easy situation for intellectual property owners, but if you could find an investigator as resourceful and capable as a consumer,...
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