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$1.9 Billion Counterfeit & Pirated Goods Monitored in 2006

$1.9 Billion Counterfeit & Pirated Goods Monitored in 2006 Significant increase in actual counterfeit and piracy activity measured. Calgary, Canada, Jan. 29 — During 2006, the International Chamber of Commerce’s BASCAP Intelligence Reports monitored 1,647 global incidents of intellectual property theft focusing exclusively on copyright and trademark infringement. A total…

Advances in Biochemistry to Fight Crime

Advances in Biochemistry to Fight Crime Deoxyribonucleic acid is the basis for chromosomes and transmits genetic material from one generation to the next. But, since the mid-1980s, scientists have been finding ways to broaden DNA’s primary use. Police have used this basic genetic material to close the book on investigations…

Huge Genetic Value Shown in Australian Wild Rice

Huge Genetic Value Shown in Australian Wild Rice A recent study has indicated that Australian wild rice varies significantly in its genetic sequencing from the domesticated varieties used relatively nearby in Asia. This is hugely important because modern cultivated rice has undergone millennia of human intervention and selection. Whilst that…

How to Stop Counterfeiting?

Trying to pass work off as somebody else’s has very probably been with humankind since the dawn of civilisation and perhaps even before that. Almost always perpetrated for obtaining profit through deception, it has become one of the great value-destroying evils of the 20th and 21st centuries. How do you stop it…

Don’t think Counterfeiting only Happens to Others

The truth of the matter is, nobody really knows just what the value of counterfeit sales is around the globe each year. A number of very provisional figures for 2014, currently being debated, range from $206-$300 billion U.S. globally. These are, of course, amounts of money that are incomprehensible to…

5 Things You Never Knew About Fake Goods

Here is a quick and slightly tongue-in-cheek list of five subtleties you may not have appreciated relating to fake goods. 1.    In certain circumstances, it is perfectly legal to make replicas.  That might be in situations where there is no original copyright/patent (e.g. antiques) or where you have the brand owner’s…

The most Commonly Faked Goods in the Australia 2014

We occasionally encounter the viewpoint that a given product or series of products would be unlikely to catch the attention of counterfeiters. Yet in fact, providing there is potential profit involved, virtually nothing is immune from their ‘efforts’. To give some indication of this, here are the official statistics for…