There is a website named Upstate Belle Empire and it advertises that it’s ‘spent years searching the marketplace for True (sic) designer brands at huge discounts.” It displays logos such as these:
One item advertised today are these Coach Rainboots:
. . .which Coach says is a counterfeit.
This last bit on the UBE home
Yeshiva (Albert Einstein College of Medicine) v A Possibly Imaginary Albert Einstein University
Yeshiva University runs the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Someone is promoting an Albert Einstein University medical school, allegedly in Grand Cayman, which doesn’t seem to exist (see paras. 26 on in the complaint).
Complaint Yeshiva v Albert Einstein University
Burberry Awarded $4 Million in Statutory Damages
Burberry obtains judgement of $4 million in statutory damages, based on $1 million per type of counterfeit good, against ‘serial’ counterfeiter.
Decision Burberry Statutory Damages
Philip Morris v. Various Groceries Selling Cigarettes
This is a complaint Philip Morris brought against six grocery stores and ten John Does, for selling counterfeit cigarettes. What’s interesting is how the Court will handle the joinder of these defendants – I did not see allegations in the complaint of any sort of connection between them (apart from the allegation that they all
99 Problems And Counterfeits Is One Of Them
A John Doe complaint filed by LiveNation, licensee for Jay Z, in anticipation of a Jay Z concert in Massachusetts.
UPDATE: In the comment below a reader asks: Does the law really permit the filing of such a speculative case, against unknown persons for conjectural future alleged infringement?
And the answer is: the law permits
A Trademark Lawyer on the Supreme Court?
“The Real Pirate Bay”
Umair Haque: “The Real Pirate Bay”
Set up a torrent tracker, get fined, go to jail.
Join a bank, destroy the economy, profit.
Two Views Re The Wolverine Piracy Firing
Pro: Fox News Columnist Reportedly Fired for Wolverine Review
Con: Wolverine Piracy, Claws Grow
Pictured: A real wolverine.
The Knockoff Report
IPCybercrime.com: The Knockoff Report
Rob Holmes is Founder & CEO of IPCybercrime.com. Raised in New Jersey in a family of private investigators, Rob worked his first trademark infringement case at the age of twelve. While aspiring as a stand-up comedian in Los Angeles in the early 90s, he found employment at a premiere intellectual property
Suggestion for INTA Conference Location
The mall in Nanjing, China, described here by Counterfeit Chic.