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I’ve just uploaded an article about the UK Bribery Act – view it at http://www.abmsoftware.com/News-and-Media_Articles_UK-Bribery-Act-2010-software.html
It is important that businesses make sure they have adequate policies and procedures in place to manage suspected cases of bribery – if they fail to do this, the business may be subject to an unlimited fine.
Investigation management software like Intellicase can be used to help address this.
Google has announced it is increasing attempts to make life difficult for internet software pirates…
It seems that big brands have their hands full with differing court outcomes…?
A U.S. District Court decided in 2008 that eBay was not liable for any trademark infringement from the sale of counterfeit Tiffany products on its auction site. Tiffany appealed the decision but the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday refused to hear the appeal. Similar cases have also found in favour of eBay (such as the May 2009 L’Oreal v eBay case in France) stating that it is the brand’s responsibility to police counterfeit goods, however others have found in favour of the brands (e.g. Nov 2009, LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton v eBay).
RCMP has intercepted a container of 10 million contraband cigarettes on their way from China to Canada. The cigarettes has a street value of $4.9m. Seven men were arrested…
In the past two years, Peru has become the No. 1 distributor of counterfeit currency internationally, according to Kenneth Jenkins, a U.S. special agent in charge of the Secret Service’s Criminal Investigative Division. “Approximately $33 million has been seized in Peru since 2009″…
Counterfeiting has a long history. For most commodities it is simply the theft of brand owners’ intellectual property, a trademark violation. But fake medicines can also kill. Political wrangling over language, and confusion over how to deal with the public health and private property aspects of counterfeiting, is hampering international action…
Serious and organised criminals are increasingly involved in the trading of counterfeit goods, the charity Crimestoppers has warned. SOCA has teamed up with Crimestoppers to promote the Fakes Fund Crime campaign and squash the myth that counterfeiting is a harmless enterprise. In reality it is often run by international, highly organised and extremely profitable crime networks which are also involved in weapons trafficking, prostitution, drug smuggling and people smuggling. A recent review suggested that the criminal gain from counterfeiting in the UK was worth £1.3 billion every year…
Four men have been jailed after counterfeit bank notes worth more than £1m were uncovered by police. Their sentences, handed down at Leeds Crown Court on Wednesday, ranged from 12 years to five-and-a-half years.
Almost 400,000 counterfeit children’s Christmas toys and decorations valued at two million euros has been seized here over the last 15 days, Italian police have said. The items arrived in Italy via three import businesses registered to three Chinese nationals…
Amazingly three hundred corner stores have been offered black-market tobacco to sell, research has revealed….
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