Brand Counterfeiting | Product Forgery | Product Piracy

Brand piracy is the unlawful use of names, brands and logos that other producers use to identify their products. By contrast, product piracy means the illegal imitation and reproduction of articles that are protected by the inventor’s copyright. In both forms, technical knowledge and intellectual property are unlawfully exploited to bypass years of development, research and work and to enrich oneself in the short term at the expense of others’ ideas and performance. The pretence of originality often additionally exploits the reputation of the original producer.

 

Our counterfeiting experts take reliable action against these offences when instructed and gather evidence admissible in court: +49 89 7007 4301.

Investigation of Perpetrators and Masterminds | Distribution Structures

The brand detectives of Kurtz Detective Agency Munich investigate on behalf of companies that are potentially or demonstrably being plagiarised in order to uncover the distribution structures and straw men through which information has been leaked or via which those responsible for harming the defrauded original producers must be held to account. The theft of intellectual property occurs at all levels within the framework of copyright and patent law. Even at trade fairs in Germany, counterfeits and imitations are presented as new developments by exhibitors – sometimes only a few metres from the stand of the injured company. Rights holders therefore suffer annual damages in the billions, and German employees lose their livelihoods as a result. Our brand experts reliably identify pirated copies and forgeries and, by tracing the addresses and whereabouts of the masterminds and responsible persons, secure your claim for damages and for injunctive relief.

 

Let Kurtz Investigations Munich assist you in the fight against the theft of your intellectual property: kontakt@kurtz-detektei-muenchen.de.

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Plagiarism | Exact Replicas | Classic Counterfeits

Plagiarism covers better or sloppier product imitations or even new products that, by using a slightly altered brand name, attempt to pass as the original. In exact replicas the originals, including logo and packaging, are reproduced as precisely as possible. Good exact replicas can only be recognised by experts, because sometimes even the ingredients are the same as in the original (for example in “excellent” perfume counterfeits). By contrast, classic counterfeits are easily distinguishable from the original in terms of content. They may copy the packaging and logo – the exterior – of the original, but the products are generally of inferior quality and in any case can be distinguished from the original by a product expert.