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The Alliance for Gray Market and Counterfeit Abatement (AGMA) is a District of Columbia-based non-profit organization of information technology (IT) companies that works to educate and raise awareness on counterfeiting; digital IP protection; service and warranty abuse; and the gray market. The term grey market refers to the sale of branded ...
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Sproxil is an American venture capital-backed [1] for-profit company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts that provides a consumer product verification service (called Mobile Authentication Service or MAS) to help consumers avoid purchasing counterfeit products. The service was the first Mobile Authentication Service (MAS) to launch in Nigeria.
Counterfeit t-shirts at a flea market. A counterfeit is a fake or unauthorized replica of a genuine product, such as money, documents, designer items, or other valuable goods. [1] [2] [3] Counterfeiting generally involves creating an imitation of a genuine item that closely resembles the original to deceive others into believing it is authentic ...
It attracted counterfeiting of large volumes when printing technology for polymer substrate became commonly available. Therefore new designs additionally laminate this window with an ultra-thin security foil, e.g., on the Frontier series of the Canadian dollar which was issued from 2011, and the Australian dollar (2nd series) issued from 2016.
Markmonitor Inc. is an American software company founded in 1999. It develops software intended to protect corporate brands from Internet counterfeiting, fraud, piracy, and cybersquatting. MarkMonitor also develops and publishes reports on the prevalence of brand abuse on the Internet. In November 2022, the company was acquired by Newfold ...
Negotiations for the ACTA treaty are not part of any international body. [12] ACTA was first developed by Japan and the United States in 2006. Canada, the European Union (represented in the negotiations by the European Commission, the EU Presidency and EU Member States) [13] and Switzerland joined the preliminary talks throughout 2006 and 2007.
Counterfeit consumer goods, unauthorized sales (diversion), material substitution and tampering can all be reduced with these anti-counterfeiting technologies. Packages may include authentication seals and use security printing to help indicate that the package and contents are not counterfeit; these too are subject to counterfeiting.