Anti Counterfeiting Investigations

The personnel at Cerberus are highly experienced in assisting our clients to effectively identify individuals, groups and entities at the source of counterfeit or infringing products.

We have worked in most industries that have issues with counterfeiters or infringers including footwear, fmcg, sportswear, pharmaceuticals, tobacco, confectionery, apparel, white goods, household goods, alcohol and spirits, perfumes and cosmetics, automotive, toys, watches, luxury goods, software and music.

Our head office is in London and we have further offices in Istanbul and Warsaw through which we manage investigations internationally.

In many jurisdictions we have links with local investigators that we have worked with already and so can execute site visits and so on quickly and at low cost while retaining quality and clarity.

When conducting anti-counterfeiting investigations our strategies usually involve the following:

• Identifying the supply chain from the end seller to the source, to gather evidence to expose the manufacturers to legal or other remedies.
• Trap purchases to obtain samples together with offers to supply to use as evidence.
• Use of various front companies to make covert trade approaches.
• Conducting and designing market surveys to highlight specific problems in the market place.
• We have commissioned forensic analysis of products and packaging to assist with investigations.
• Provision of evidence for seizure and destruction orders of infringing products.

We can also assist the client with choosing and liaising with local lawyers in difficult territories where they do not usually have any IP expertise.

We have conducted anti-counterfeiting investigations in the following territories:

Algeria, Antigua, Australia, Austria, The Balearic Islands, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bermuda, Canada ,The Canary Islands, China, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, Dubai, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Jersey, Korea, Morocco, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia and the former Russian countries, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South America, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey and USA.