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| Operation Site Down: Global Intellectual Property Theft Arrests |
All |
| The Federal Bureau of Investigation and law enforcement from 10 other countries conducted over 90 searches worldwide as part of "Operation Site Down," |
WW |
4/27/2007 |
CIB-7-2532 |
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| Tourist Police and Economic & Cyber Crime Police from Bangkok seize counterfeit branded goods in Shopping Mall. |
Clothing |
| Pattaya’s Tourist Police Division along with the Economics and Cyber Crimes Police Division based in Bangkok conducted an operation at Mike Shopping Mall |
Thailand |
4/25/2007 |
CIB-7-2493 |
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| Investigators Say They Found $100,000 in Fake Goods |
Clothing |
| From jeans to shirts to shoes, deputies say they found a mountain of fake merchandise inside a business in Columbia |
USA |
4/24/2007 |
CIB-7-2489 |
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| Fake vodka gives shop expensive hangover |
Food & Beverage |
| A Croydon off licence has been fined for selling counterfeit vodka, a year after the shopkeeper was warned for selling pirated whisky. |
UK |
4/25/2007 |
CIB-7-2498 |
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| Galliano's Counterfeits - Christian Dior On Trial For Plagiarism |
Luxury Goods |
| Christian Dior’s chief designer, John Galliano has been sued for stealing the creative works of another artist to boost his own collections. |
Europe |
4/24/2007 |
CIB-7-2468 |
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| Smuggling plots worth nearly £6m foiled |
Luxury Goods |
| A PLOT to smuggle fake designer sunglasses worth £2.5million through Felixstowe docks has been foiled, customs officers revealed today. |
UK |
4/24/2007 |
CIB-7-2486 |
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| Suit alleges knockoffs sold |
Luxury Goods |
| And on Thursday, the Sacramento County District Attorney's Office confirmed it is pursuing a civil fraud investigation of L'Image. |
USA |
4/27/2007 |
CIB-7-2524 |
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| Six U.S. movie distributors win lawsuit against Beijing DVD seller |
Movies |
| Warner Bros and five other U.S. movie giants have successfully sued the owners of a Beijing DVD shop that was selling counterfeit copies of their movies. |
China |
4/26/2007 |
CIB-7-2495 |
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| Police pluck bird flu research base to find DVD pirates |
Movies |
| Chinese police have nabbed a pirate DVD production and sales ring that had concealed their operation in a supposed bird flu research base in east China's Jiangxi Province. |
China |
4/26/2007 |
CIB-7-2511 |
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| DVD burners seized in Bangkok piracy raid |
Movies |
| Eleven persons were arrested and 140 DVD-R burners seized during an operation in the Bangkok suburb of Nondhaburi conducted by the Royal Thai Police |
Thailand |
4/28/2007 |
CIB-7-2535 |
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| MOVIES PIRATE TOOK IN £18,000 A WEEK |
Movies |
| A VIDEO and CD pirate who flogged thousands of dodgy movies and albums in the shadow of Glasgow's High Court is facing jail. |
UK |
4/25/2007 |
CIB-7-2491 |
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| Trader jailed over pirate DVDs |
Movies |
| A TRADER who stashed 20,000 pirate DVDs and CDs at a market has been jailed. |
UK |
4/25/2007 |
CIB-7-2497 |
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| Teacher jailed for selling pirate DVDs |
Movies |
| A TEACHER was jailed yesterday for taking part in one of Scotland's biggest pirate DVD scams. |
UK |
4/26/2007 |
CIB-7-2508 |
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| Statement from John Kennedy, Chairman and Chief Executive of IFPI, on today’s Yahoo! China ruling |
Music |
| The Beijing Court has confirmed that Yahoo! China has clear responsibility for removing all links to the infringing tracks on its service |
China |
4/24/2007 |
CIB-7-2487 |
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| KRA destroys counterfeit goods worth 1.2 million shillings |
Music |
| Officials from the Kenya Revenue Authority have impounded and destroyed several counterfeit CD's and shoe polish brand Kiwi, all valued at 1.2 million shillings. |
Kenya |
4/27/2007 |
CIB-7-2529 |
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| Police seize 140,000 counterfeit CDs in Nonthaburi |
Music |
| National police chief General Seripisut Temiyavej led officers to arrest 11 piracy suspects and seize more than 140,000 counterfeit CDs in three locations in Nonthaburi's Bang Kruay district Wednesday. |
Thailand |
4/25/2007 |
CIB-7-2500 |
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| Pirated CDs worth Rs 20 lakh seized |
Music & Movies |
| The video piracy cell wing of police today arrested one person following the seizure of over 5,000 pirated VCDs and DVDs |
India |
4/24/2007 |
CIB-7-2485 |
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| China recognises GSK for busting fake drugs racket |
Pharmaceuticals |
| Undercover agents employed by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) posed as traders in fake medicines to help to close down a global pharmaceutical counterfeiting racket based in China. |
China |
4/26/2007 |
CIB-7-2504 |
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| Spurious drugs seized |
Pharmaceuticals |
| Four persons allegedly engaged in manufacture and supply of spurious drugs have been arrested by the Special Cell of the Delhi police. |
India |
4/28/2007 |
CIB-7-2534 |
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| Major Manufacturer of Unapproved and Adulterated Drugs Agrees to Stop Illegal Practices |
Pharmaceuticals |
| The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the entry of a Consent Decree of Permanent Injunction against PharmaFab Inc., its subsidiary, PFab LP, and two company officials, Mark Tengler, PharmaFab's president, and Russ McMahen |
USA |
4/25/2007 |
CIB-7-2518 |
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| Four Plead Guilty To Selling Counterfeit Rockwell Software |
Software |
| Four men pleaded guilty Thursday to using the Internet to sell counterfeit Rockwell Automation computer software with a retail value of more than $19 million. |
USA |
4/26/2007 |
CIB-7-2520 |
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| Officials Raid Illegal-Document Operation |
zDocumentation |
| Federal authorities charged 22 people on Wednesday with being part of one of the nation’s largest operations to produce counterfeit identification documents. |
USA |
4/26/2007 |
CIB-7-2509 |
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