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| Rotork copes with copies |
Autos & Parts |
| Subsequently, the court ruled in April 2007 that Autork was guilty of slavish imitation, breach of copyright, violating design rights of Rotork’s actuators and infringing Rotork’s trademark. |
China |
1/16/2008 |
CIB-7-3938 |
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| China's Most Wanted Counterfeiter |
Chemicals |
| But Yuan, who had posted $200,000 bail and surrendered two passports, somehow managed to flee the country and is now back home in Hunan |
China |
1/16/2008 |
CIB-7-3936 |
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| Vermonter sentenced for selling fraudulent high-priced goods on eBay |
Luxury Goods |
| The anonymity of the Internet wasn't enough to protect a Vermont woman from getting caught selling bogus designer handbags to unsuspecting buyers through eBay |
USA |
1/16/2008 |
CIB-7-3930 |
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| Three Indicted and Arrested in One of the Largest Counterfeit Goods Prosecutions in U.S. History |
Luxury Goods |
| On Jan. 16, 2008, the indictment was unsealed and ICE agents arrested defendants Lam and Chan and searched their clothing store on West 30th Street in New York City. |
USA |
1/17/2008 |
CIB-7-3944 |
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| Alberta man charged with video piracy |
Movies |
| Calgary Police say the arrest came after a six-month investigation by a local security company, which had been hired by the Canadian Motion Picture Distribution Association. |
Canada |
1/17/2008 |
CIB-7-3945 |
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| Counterfeit woman told to pay just £1 |
Movies |
| A woman who made £111,000 from fake DVD sales has had just £1 confiscated under the Proceeds of Crime Act |
UK |
1/16/2008 |
CIB-7-3931 |
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| Fake DVDs seller must pay back £77,500 |
Movies |
| A COUNTERFEITER from Newton Harcourt who made nearly £120,000 from selling fake DVDs has been ordered to pay back cash or face jail |
UK |
1/17/2008 |
CIB-7-3943 |
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| Man sentenced to 15 yrs in jail for selling fake drugs |
Pharmaceuticals |
| A special court in Thane has sentenced a man to 15 years in jail for manufacturing and selling spurious drugs. |
India |
1/14/2008 |
CIB-7-3918 |
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| BSA awaits pirate sentence |
Software |
| Derby man pleads guilty to selling illegal copies of his own company’s software |
UK |
1/14/2008 |
CIB-7-3924 |
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| Cartier wins $1m counterfeit watches case |
Watches |
| Cartier International has won nearly $1m in damages in a court case against a counterfeit watch operation in a New York court after the operation was found guilty of trademark infringement |
USA |
1/17/2008 |
CIB-7-3941 |
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