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Latest News - Trade Marks Act 1994

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Counterfeit handbags, clothes and jewellery worth more than £2m seized in Christmas crackdown

21 December 2016

21.12.16 - The raids were part of an ongoing enforcement operation in the Strangeways area of Manchester, a former garment district dubbed Britain's knock-off capital. Council chiefs, police and the Anti-Counterfeiting Group are working together as part of the crackdown.

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More than £2 million worth of counterfeit goods have been seized in Cornwall since April

16 December 2016

16.12.16 - Both Devon and Cornwall Police and Cornwall Trading Standards have been cracking down on people selling fake designer items on social media such as Facebook.

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Operation sees £1 million of counterfeit items seized

16 December 2016

16.12.16 - The operation is the latest phase of Operation Jasper, a long running campaign co-ordinated by the National Markets Group and Trading Standards, with the aim of tackling the sale of unsafe counterfeit goods on social media.

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Multi agency operation sees more than £3million of suspected counterfeit goods seized at Wellesbourne Market

14 December 2016

13.12.16 - In a joint operation with members of the Anti Counterfeiting Group (ACG) and National Markets Group (NMG), Warwickshire Police seized nearly £3.5million in suspected counterfeit and unsafe goods during from Wellesbourne Market on Saturday (December 10).

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Warning: £1.5m of fake designer goods seized at airport

09 December 2016

09.12.16 - Border Force officers have grabbed more than 60,000 items in the past few weeks.

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Don't be tricked into buying fake goods this Christmas

08 December 2016

08.12.16 - Southend Council and Trading Standards officers have teamed up to warn people across the borough that they should be vigilant when buying gifts this season.

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Fake Free Newport – protecting customers and businesses

07 December 2016

07.12.16 - Newport City Council has today launched a campaign to make the city free of fake and counterfeit goods and services.

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Fraudster who sold counterfeit T-shirts is fined £70k

03 December 2016

03.12.16 - In November 2013, officers visited McDonald's home, where they found a garden shed set up as a small factory with printing equipment, T-shirts and computers.

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Border Force training at Felixstowe

25 November 2016

25.11.16 The Anti-Counterfeiting Group (ACG) visited Felixstowe port on Wednesday 16 November to meet Border Force officers and provide training on spotting counterfeit products.

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£17bn of fake goods 'costing tens of thousands of British jobs'

22 November 2016

22.11.16 - The rise of online shopping has bolstered the counterfeit economy, with UK consumers now twice as likely to see fakes on sale online as they were a year ago, according to new data released by the Centre for Economic and Business Research (Cebr) and online brand specialist NetNames.

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About ACG

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.

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