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| New trial to revisit fake Botox charges |
Cosmetics |
| A Houston physician will be tried again on federal charges that she bought a cheaper substitute for Botox and injected unsuspecting patients. |
USA |
10/26/2007 |
CIB-7-3511 |
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| Belgian man heavily fined for Internet piracy |
Downloading |
| A Belgian man has been fined more than 400,000 euros (568,000 U.S. dollars) for illegally copying films, games, software and music from the Internet, news reports said on Saturday. |
Belgium |
10/27/2007 |
CIB-7-3535 |
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| Gaming pirate in £1m con |
Electronics |
| A COMPUTER geek who made £1million selling illegal video game chips from his bedroom faces jail in a landmark case. |
UK |
10/25/2007 |
CIB-7-3529 |
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| An Algerian company fined by Paris Commercial Court |
Food & Beverage |
| Paris Commercial Court imposed a fine on an Algerian dairy company following a complaint of brand counterfeiting lodged by the French dairy group Yoplait. |
Algeria |
10/25/2007 |
CIB-7-3515 |
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| Fake Furniture Importers Fined 50 Million Won |
Miscellaneous |
| Importers of Chinese furniture, who brought in cheap sofas, tables and beds from the neighboring country and sold them here as ``luxury items from Europe’’ have been fined, it was reported Thursday. |
China |
10/25/2007 |
CIB-7-3527 |
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| Man admits counterfeiting charges |
Movies |
| Experts estimated the legitimate market value of the films alone at almost £50,000 and music discs at a further £3,000. |
UK |
10/27/2007 |
CIB-7-3508 |
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| DIC Entertainment Files $20 Million Federal Lawsuit against Troll Company A/S |
Recreational Goods |
| DIC alleges that it expressed concern about the sale of counterfeit Good Luck Trolls and other infringing products, since such “knock-off” products threatened to undermine the value of the both the Classic Trolls and the Trollz |
USA |
10/24/2007 |
CIB-7-3524 |
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| Four sentenced for Microsoft scheme |
Software |
| A Fremont couple and two other defendants have been sentenced for their roles in a software piracy scheme that defrauded Microsoft Corp. of millions of dollars |
USA |
10/26/2007 |
CIB-7-3534 |
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| TV links website owner arrested for copyright infringement |
TV |
| A man aged 26 from Cheltenham was arrested on Thursday (18th October) in connection with offences relating to the facilitation of copyright infringement on the Internet. |
UK |
10/22/2007 |
CIB-7-3504 |
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| Court told of counterfeit gang's 28bn-pound con plot |
zCheques |
| An "audacious" band of counterfeiters tried to con the Bank of England out of a whopping 28 billion pounds with badly-made fake notes, |
UK |
10/22/2007 |
CIB-7-3502 |
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