Cosmetics & Personal Care

• 5 tips for protecting your brand against online counterfeit

  12-Jul-18 - Joan Porta of brand and copyright protection firm Red Points gives his top tips for fighting counterfeits online.

• Cryptomice wins EU blockchain anti-counterfeit challenge

  01-Jul-18 - Italian team was the overall winner in a competition to design blockchain-based measures to curb counterfeit.

• AI-driven brand protection firm Incopro raises $21m

  22-May-18 - Incopro says backing from Highland Europe will “accelerate the development” of its online brand protection technology.

• Hong Kong customs net fake cosmetics, skincare products

  18-May-18 - Hong Kong Customs has clamped down on counterfeit cosmetics in a three-day op that uncovered 13,000 suspect goods.

• Seen and heard: counterfeiting news in brief

  10-May-18 - EC polls on illegal content, fake goods in China, lawsuits over fake drugs, dodgy airbags, Singapore security, and blockchain.

• Alibaba triples size of brand owner IP rights group

  09-May-18 - Alibaba has signed up 75 additional brand owners to its IP partnership formed last year with 30 members.

• EU action targets counterfeit-selling social media channels

  07-May-18 - A Europol and EU authority action against social media sellers has seized more than 20,000 fake products.

• Make-up with a special ingredient: human faeces

  16-Apr-18 - LAPD confiscates $700,000-worth of knock-off make-up contaminated with human and animal waste.

• Seen and heard: counterfeiting news in brief

  04-Apr-18 - Fake cosmetics, wine and medicines, plus a Belgian meat scandal and a lawsuit against US Homeland Security over seizures.

• IBM says crypto-anchors will ‘revolutionise anti-counterfeit’

  26-Mar-18 - Says array of digital fingerprints called crypto-anchors could solve counterfeit conundrum.

• Clothing and accessories top US fake good seizures in 2017

  13-Mar-18 - Seizures of counterfeit products arriving at US ports and borders increased 8 per cent last year, new figures reveal.

• Four indicted over drug-laced supplements, fake condoms

  09-Mar-18 - Three women and one man in Puerto Rico have charged with offences related to the sale of fake and misbranded goods.

• Adulterated supplements use ‘resold’ barcodes to avoid enforcement

  07-Mar-18 - Resold UPC barcodes may be fuelling sales of adulterated dietary supplements, says a new study.

• Seen and heard: counterfeiting news in brief

  26-Feb-18 - Counterfeit medicines, condoms and food, plus Canadian Pacific Mall’s response to its notorious markets listing.

• P&G donates counterfeit detector to US border authorities

  16-Feb-18 - Procter & Gamble has joined forces with US customs in a bid to crackdown on fake P&G goods entering the US.

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