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16 July 2016
16.07.16 - A stark warning has been issued to retailers across Leicestershire after it was found many believed they weren't breaking the law by dealing in openly described dodgy merchandise.
05 July 2016
05.07.16 - Biggest and longest enforcement action against counterfeiting and piracy on social media rolled out across Scotland and Eire.
30 June 2016
30.06.16 - Rhondda Cynon Taf Council's Specialist Trading Standards team is dealing with an increasing number of complaints of fake goods – including clothing, footwear, watches, perfume and even DVDs – being sold via selling sites and personal profiles on the social media network.
08 June 2016
08.06.16 - DIE-hard England fans are funding drugs, sex gangs and people trafficking ops by buying cheap shirts at Euro 2016. It's believed illegal shirt trade is funding drug-runners, people smugglers and vice gangs because these are the people who control the counterfeiting operations in places like China and Turkey.
06 June 2016
06.06.16 - The Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) has suspended a website selling fake UEFA merchandise and national kits, as they announce that they have taken down over 10,000 websites selling counterfeit goods since the unit's launch in 2013.
26 May 2016
26.05.16 - Following test-purchases online, Lincolnshire Trading Standards raided Richards' home last August, uncovering over 2,500 counterfeit goods, including sunglasses, watches, jewellery, make-up and other accessories across 16 different brands.
25 May 2016
25.05.16 - Fake goods are made in unregulated environments, without regard for health and safety regulations, so it's impossible to know what's in them. It's one thing for your counterfeit designer jacket to shed some stitches but quite another to be put in serious danger through no fault of your own.
14 May 2016
14.05.16 - Michele Brady, 51, used her living room and upstairs bedroom of her house in Jellicoe Close to store hundreds of boxes of the counterfeit products, which she then sold over Facebook.
12 May 2016
12.05.16 - From 2014 to 2015 the MHRA seized fake Viagra valued at £3,890,516 from a yearly total of counterfeit drugs of £8,696,067. From 2015 to 2016 this had tripled to £11,205,342, making up 90% of counterfeit drugs seized that year.
09 May 2016
09.05.16 - Darlington Magistrates' Court heard today (Monday, May 9) that Fergal Hague bought the sunglasses for £5 a pair off Ebay, then sold them on at £30 a pair after advertising them as genuine Oakleys.
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ACG represents more than 3,000 brands affected by this influx of fakes into the UK and delivers an international network of information, advice and contacts on all aspects of IP protection. Working with Government and law enforcement agencies since 1980, ACG is focused on providing an effective and sustained response to counterfeiting.
Membership with the ACG is the best way to work with government and enforcement bodies to protect your brand. Our Roadshows and training days help you reach out to police, trading standards and border force officers and tell them about your genuine products.