The unorganized gray industry for spurious/duplicate manufacturing and sales of established branded products is so huge that more than Rs. 20,000 crores (USD 444 million) wroth of fake goods are sold annually only in India; sales are much higher in China, Hong Kong, Bankok and other developing countries. In fact, this menace is doing big damage to the established brands being made /marketed by reputed organizations across the world. DNC's long experience in the field revealed that:

» 10-30% of cosmetic and toiletries are spurious,
» 35% of automotive parts are duplicate,
» 65% watches are spurious,
» 88% of gold jewel is less carat age than claimed,
» 20% of soft/aerated drinks are spurious,
» 10-30% of sports items, liquor are spurious,

The above list is just indicative and counterfeiting is prevalent in almost every products/segment, causing huge financial losses to the original manufacturers, health hazard to the gullible buyers and tax losses to the Government departments.

We offer following services to investigation, identify and control counterfeit activities:

• Preventive Strategy:

  • Prevention is always better than cure. We offer this unique portfolio in IPR protection and enforcement to drastically reduce spurious products of our clients by:
    
    » Intelligence on duplicators in target market/cities,
    » Nip the evil in the bud,
    » Plan continuous raids to make their business un profitable,
    » Awareness campaigns in target market/cities,
    » Break chain of raw material suppliers-distributors-buyers,
    » Understand their strategy to counter their sales with original products,
    » Assist clients to reach to reach markets captured by duplicators,
    » Our preventive strategy will fetch immediate results with increased sales volumes of our clients,

• Field Investigations:

  • DNC has pan India network with offices at Delhi, Candia, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata and Guwahati, besides free lance investigators spread in big and small towns across India. We have large number of informers who keep us informed of every day happening in spurious markets and our working relationships with Police and Courts help us fast and effective actions against duplicators. Our services includes:
    
    » Detect spurious manufacturing units,
    » Identify stockiest/distributors,
    » Obtain samples of spurious goods,
    » Acquire evidences and proofs by making transactions with duplicators,
    » Coordination with Police/Crime Branch,
    » Conduct simultaneous raids on different duplicators,
    » Organize media coverage of the raids,

• Legal Actions:

  • DNC is a full service law firm with specialization in corporate and IPR assignments. We have lawyers, engineers and investigators to provide comprehensive solutions to our clients in IPR related services. Our enforcement team shall provide following services:
    
    » File complaints in concerned Court,
    » Seek search and seizer orders,
    » Organize raid & search of premises,
    » Co-ordinate in arrests of duplicators,
    » Oppose bails of arrested/accused persons,
    » Assist during prosecution proceedings,
    » Secure conviction of duplicators/counterfeits,