Trademark Counterfeiting | Product Counterfeiting | Product Piracy

Anyone wishing to position themselves in the market, establish a presence, and grow must keep pace with the times and usually requires innovation. Innovations are intellectual property, intellectual assets, and like any form of property they can be stolen, usually resulting in financial loss for the victim. In a city such as Berlin, full of bright minds and young, ambitious entrepreneurs, protecting intellectual property is essential for economic success. Unfortunately, in many sectors there are national and international competitors who do not wish to follow the “rules of the game” and instead resort to stealing intellectual property. Berlin in particular is characterised by enormous research potential and a high level of creativity. As a result, in 2013 product piracy accounted for almost 80 per cent of all statistically recorded competition-related offences.

Original and Counterfeit Side by Side at Berlin Trade Fairs

Despite all your efforts, despite technical control options and the activities of the customs authorities, thousands of sometimes deceptively realistic counterfeit branded goods flood European markets every year. Everyone is familiar with them: football shirts of Bundesliga clubs on Turkish market stalls at bargain prices, Breitling watches, Rolex, Omega, and many others offered for just a few euros at weekly markets. Yet this is only the tip of the iceberg.

 

In all areas of copyright and patent law, copying takes place extensively. Even at official German trade fairs, these pirated copies and plagiarised products are openly displayed for sale. At trade fairs in Berlin it has even been observed that originals and counterfeit copies were exhibited at two neighbouring stands. In most cases the suppliers come from the Far East, where there appears to be little sense of wrongdoing regarding such provocations. German companies suffer losses amounting to billions, and German employees are deprived of their livelihoods as a result.

 

Kurtz Detective Agency Berlin works closely with experts in trademark law. We deploy our specialists to identify product counterfeits and imitations. We then investigate the distribution channels of these illegal goods and ensure the enforcement of your claims for damages and injunctive relief.

 

Allow Kurtz Detective Agency Berlin to support you in the fight against the theft of your intellectual property: +49 30 5557 8641-0.