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.
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.”
According to INPI, there are 4 main categories of counterfeiting.
For commercial identifiers, trademark infringements are:
Beware trade names fall into the category of unfair competition.
With regard to copyright infringement, the acts of infringement are:
In the case of forgery of designs, the acts of infringement are:
The infringement of patents is:
Software is copyrighted or patented.
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:
On the economy
It is a question for the State to lose collateral amounts pre-read through sales.
Regarding workers
Counterfeiting impacts:
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:
To do this, the private investigator responsible for gathering evidence to defend your interests in court will propose several strategies:
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 is made by a licensed private investigator of the Prometheus Group:
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:
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:
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: