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Counterfeit

Détective privé - contrefaçon

Counterfeit and private detective!!

Counterfeiting is worth about $250 billion, according to the OECD. Counterfeiting spares no sector or product.

Counterfeiting or imitation are actions that distort the free play of competition. Counterfeiting is a threat to the employment and competitiveness of businesses.

In addition, they mislead the consumer and are likely to put the consumer at risk for their health and safety.

The private investigators of the PROMETHEUS group are able to carry out investigations to identify the modus operandi of counterfeiters, and dismantle networks of supply and distribution of counterfeit products.

All of the Agencies and Private Detectives of the Prometheus Group specializes in the search for evidence in the utmost compliance with the laws and regulations in force.

Our investigations are admissible before the competent courts.

What is counterfeiting?

Counterfeiting under French law is an infringement of intellectual property. Thus, legal action allows it to be sanctioned and theoretically put an end to the latter.

Counterfeiting is characterized as follows: it reproduces or uses without the permission of its owner a protected work, software, a patent, or even a trademark.

In literary or artistic property, counterfeiting will be retained in the event of a reproduction of a photograph, for example, a painting or a book without the author’s permission.

Counterfeiting is also possible in the field of industrial property as well as for medicines, for example.

Counterfeiting is defined by Article L 335-2 and the following intellectual property code.

“Any edition of writings, musical composition, drawing, painting or any other production, printed or engraved in full or in part, in defiance of the laws and regulations relating to the property of the authors, is a forgery and any counterfeiting is a crime.”

Some counterfeiting criteria?

According to INPI, there are 4 main categories of counterfeiting.

Counterfeiting of commercial identifiers
Counterfeiting of artistic creations and design
Counterfeiting of technical creations
Software counterfeiting

For commercial identifiers, trademark infringements are:

  • The possession, sale or importation of products with a infringing mark.
  • The reproduction, imitation, removal or substitution of the mark, without the permission of its owner.

Beware trade names fall into the category of unfair competition.

With regard to copyright infringement, the acts of infringement are:

  • Full or partial, final or temporary reproduction of a work without permission
  • The representation of a work without permission

In the case of forgery of designs, the acts of infringement are:

  • The manufacture without permission, in the same or near way, of the protected form.
  • The importation, the unleased sale of the protected form.

The infringement of patents is:

  • The manufacture of the product or the implementation of the patented process, without authorization.
  • The sale or importation of the protected product without authorization.

Software is copyrighted or patented.

Why fight counterfeiting?
How do you fight counterfeiting with a private investigator?

Counterfeiting is a scourge that affects consumers, employees, businesses and the economy.

Regarding the consammater

He buys a counterfeit product that is not the original, probably cheaper and certainly of poor quality.

The consumer puts at stake his responsibility in the event of a customs check. The product can be harmful to health and safety.

Designing businesses

Counterfeiting can lead to:

  • A loss of sales
  • An attack on image and notoriety
  • A drop in some bugdets for some services
  • An increase in the counter-counterfeiting budget

On the economy

It is a question for the State to lose collateral amounts pre-read through sales.

Regarding workers

Counterfeiting impacts:

  • The companies that manufacture
  • The ones that carry
  • Those that market

All these companies are obliged to close or lay off employees.

The private detectives of the PROMETHEUS group are able to carry out investigations aimed at:

  • Identify the modus operandi of counterfeiters
  • networks of supply and distribution of counterfeit products.

To do this, the private investigator responsible for gathering evidence to defend your interests in court will propose several strategies:

  • Computer monitoring to spot counterfeits on remote sales sites
  • Make purchase moves to identify the origin of the counterfeit
  • Take ties with counterfeiters for a bigger purchase
  • Setting up monitoring and spinning on counterfeiters to find different storage locations, supply locations and outlets

All of these investigative techniques will facilitate the intervention of public forces or law enforcement officers who will carry out counterfeit seizures.

Our private investigators have unmarked vehicles and high-performance video surveillance equipment.

The appointment
The strategy
The mission
The report

The appointment is made by a licensed private investigator of the Prometheus Group:

  • On videoconferencing
  • By phone
  • In the premises of the Prometheus Group
  • In a place of circumstance

This appointment is neither paid nor time-limited.

The private investigator will take the time necessary to listen to you in order to gather all the information necessary to put in place a strategy tailored to your needs.

The strategy will be offered to you based on the information received,the type of mission and the location where it should be carried out.

However, the strategy will be:

  • Adapted to the mission
  • Budgeted according to your needs and possibilities
  • No final extra cost (unless you expressly request to continue the mission)

This strategy will be offered to you via a mission mandate containing different otpions.

Once the proposed warrant has been duly signed, the private investigator assigned to your investigation will work with you to:

  • A mission schedule (modified according to events)
  • A location tracking (without you)

Then the mission will be carried out in accordance with the laws in force. During the mission, the private investigator responsible for carrying out the mission will keep you informed of the progress of the mission.

An investigation report will be provided at the end of the mission.

That will be:

  • Objective (findings of what the detective sees)
  • Detailed and detailed
  • Productable before the competent courts if necessary

To go further

What is INPI?

The National Institute of Industrial Property, called INPI, is an independent public institution. Its role is to protect the rights to industrial property titles, so it is there to guarantee the security of the deposited items and to crack down on counterfeits.