U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized more than 1,000 counterfeit point of sale machines, commonly referred to as registers, at the Canadian border last month. Officers “targeted” three ...

Counterfeiting is big business. Globally, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and European Union( EU)’s Intellectual Property Office estimate that counterfeit goods ...

Many fashionistas may be confident they can tell the difference between a real Louis Vuitton purse and a fake one, but in reality, it is not always so simple. The differences often require a close ...

In our own backyard, manufacturers of premium bearings have detected counterfeits across the globe. And any target of such illegal activity quickly realizes the critical need for immediate action to ...

Researchers, led by New York University, have developed a new method based on machine-learning algorithms to distinguish between genuine and counterfeit versions of the same product. Such technology ...

Medical device manufacturers using plasma etchers and plasma surface-preparation systems in Asia should be aware of counterfeit machines being sold in the region. The machines bear the name Plasma ...

In a nondescript warehouse in Chesapeake, nearly 5,000 karaoke machines are sitting in a cage. They won’t make it to homes in time to be opened on Christmas. But they aren’t just any karaoke machines ...

Counterfeit parts are prevalent in military and aerospace applications, where design engineers often have an incentive to specify mature components which have performed well in the past. If the ...