Monthly Archives: February 2017

Raid of Counterfeit Boston Patriots Sports Apparel

 

The Super Bowl presents a major opportunity for the counterfeiting of sports apparel. This season was no exception.

On February 4th, the day before the Boston Patriots vs. the Atlanta Falcons faced off at Super Bowl LI, Woburn police and members of the National Football League executed a search warrant at a warehouse belonging to Chowdaheadz, a local online apparel company that sells Boston sports-themed merchandise. T -shirts, sweatshirts, hats, and allegedly counterfeit sports apparel were seized, along with business records, production material and equipment. The investigation began during the Christmas season from a tip that a kiosk in the South Shore Plaza in Braintree, Massachusetts, was selling counterfeit Boston Patriots sports apparel.

 

Uganda Adopts an Anti-Counterfeiting Network

Uganda has struggled to adopt an anti-counterfeiting bill for many years with many members of Parliament  remaining divided over the issue of counterfeit versus substandard products (see video). Yet, despite the delay, Fred Muwema, Director of Legal and Corporate Affairs, has established an Anti-Counterfeiting Network this week that uses agents from all sectors of government to investigate and remove counterfeit products in the local marketplace

While establishing the Anti-Counterfeiting Network’s offices in Kampala, the country’s capital, Muwema reassured everyone that it will not only make a difference in Uganda as well as Africa at large.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scSa_vQzfzk

 

ARE THE NEWPORT CIGARETTES FAKE OR REAL?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCh8LJb2qIs

 

Check out the videos (above and below). In the United States, cigarettes cost $8 to $10 a pack, making them a ripe target for counterfeiters. The cigarettes in question are Newport, and many of the fakes are supposedly coming from China. Then again, maybe the Newports are genuine. You be the judge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGD6Num5Msk

 

 

Product Counterfeiting as a “Victimless Crime”

 

Often called a “victimless crime,” this Youtube video from Complex Originals, examines the hidden costs—including terrorism and child labor—that profit from product counterfeiting.  The analysis includes hidden camera interviews of street peddlers on New York City’s Canal Street in Chinatown.