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A Campaign to Eliminate Electrical Counterfeit Products
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Counterfeits Can Kill!
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CPSC
Electrical Safety
A Campaign to Eliminate Electrical Counterfeit Products
For years, the counterfeit products that law enforcement officials focused on most were products like watches, DVDs, purses, and shoes. Not that I don't sympathize with these industries -- counterfeiting is damaging to society because it diminishes the value of intellectual property, and in extreme...
Published
Fri, Apr 04 2009 7:46 AM
by
golds
Filed under:
Anti-Counterfeiting
A Voice of Warning from LA
This past week, Brett Brenner, president of the Electrical Safety Foundation International (ESFI), did an interview for the ABC affiliate in Los Angeles focusing on raising public awareness of counterfeit products. It is a segment that is well worth watching and that should be replayed in communities...
Published
Wed, Feb 02 2009 11:38 PM
by
Lindsay, Christopher
Filed under:
Anti-Counterfeiting
Have a Happy Fake Free Holiday Season
Counterfeiting is not a seasonal crime. Yet the year-end holiday season seems to be a time when cautionary warnings about the dangers of buying counterfeit products are more prevalent. Like reminders to check batteries in a smoke detector when changing to daylight savings time , the holiday season seems...
Published
Fri, Dec 12 2008 11:17 AM
by
Silcox, Clark
Filed under:
Anti-Counterfeiting
Counterfeits Can Kill!
So many critical issues face our members these days, from a devastating housing slump that has choked off demand for some electrical products, to a global recession combined with an increasingly strong dollar that will reduce member exports, to a credit crunch that is hurting our small manufacturers...
Published
Tue, Nov 11 2008 7:25 AM
by
golds
Filed under:
Anti-Counterfeiting
Anticounterfeiting – UL go for gold
Underwriters Laboratories recently unveiled their latest holographic label . The gold hologram will replace the silver hologram that UL has used for the last 12 years. The UL holographic label is used on 32 common consumer product where the risk of counterfeiting is greater, including power supply cords...
Published
Wed, Aug 08 2008 12:25 PM
by
Winstanley, Gerard
Filed under:
Anti-Counterfeiting
CPSC announce recall of counterfeit circuit breakers
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) last week issued a recall on counterfeit circuit breakers sold by the d istributor Specialty Lamp International Inc., of Deerfield Beach, Florida. The Counterfeit Circuit Breakers are labeled as “Square D” and approximately 371,000 have been distributed....
Published
Wed, Jun 06 2008 8:41 AM
by
Winstanley, Gerard
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Anti-Counterfeiting
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CPSC
Managing Effective IPR Law Enforcement
Three years ago, the Bush Administration introduced a new intellectual property rights initiative called Strategy Targeting Organized Piracy (STOP) and named a Coordinator for the program reporting the Secretary of Commerce. Both the private and public sector generally agree that the STOP program has...
Published
Thu, May 05 2008 4:16 PM
by
Silcox, Clark
Filed under:
Anti-Counterfeiting
Effective deterrence and the fakes that harm
Last night, the Public Broadcasting System aired an excellent National Geographic film titled Illicit! based on the book by Dr. Moises Naim, editor of Foreign Affairs magazine. Dr. Naim's book addresses illegal global trade in the broad sense, and the National Geographic film showed examples of the...
Published
Thu, Apr 04 2008 11:20 AM
by
Silcox, Clark
Filed under:
Anti-Counterfeiting
A letter from the counterfeit wars
This weekend I received an email from a consumer in the United Kingdom, who had just learned that a hair iron she had purchased from a website for a favorable price (90 pounds sterling, approximately US$180..00) turned out to be "faulty," and she was told by the manufacturer that it was counterfeit...
Published
Sun, Apr 04 2008 1:12 PM
by
Silcox, Clark
Filed under:
Anti-Counterfeiting
Time for ACTA
Last week we submitted comments to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative on the proposed “Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement” between this country and our principal trading partners. With counterfeiting in the electrical equipment industry a growing problem worldwide, the idea of getting governments...
Published
Mon, Mar 03 2008 1:51 PM
by
Meakem, John
Filed under:
Anti-Counterfeiting
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