These smoke out counterfeiters and also monitor high rollers to see how they are faring.
Any religious overtones are apt, as this watch is worshipped by collectors, enthusiasts and counterfeiters.
They can also be exploited by counterfeiters and thieves who steal them and resell them online.
Mr Noble also drew attention to the relatively light penalties counterfeiters face in many countries.
As counterfeiters rush to replicate a brand, the brand owners fight to distinguish themselves from the fakes.
To punish counterfeiters more harshly and speed information-sharing, 18 European countries signed the Medicrime convention in 2011.
Counterfeiters are using computer scanners to duplicate trademark labels and slap them on fake goods, says Ed C.
Most producers and importers contacted will acknowledge problems with counterfeiters knocking off domestic Chinese brands, but no further.
As counterfeiters continue to up their game, technology's quest for the ultimate method of proving authenticity goes on.
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Look for Beats to step up efforts to curtail counterfeiters, as the headphones remain a popular target of bootleggers.
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Vuitton is hailing the decision as a new benchmark for prosecuting counterfeiters worldwide.
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To discourage counterfeiters, Hours are printed on good-quality paper and have faint graphic elements that are hard to reproduce.
Injectable drugs have become increasingly attractive to counterfeiters, in part because they often fetch a higher price than regular pills.
The BPI welcomed the news of the prison sentence, but warned there are plenty of other active counterfeiters of Bollywood films.
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Counterfeiters "are going after anything and everything, from patented to non-patented, expensive to inexpensive, " said John Clark, Pfizer's chief security officer.
On March 5, Nauman himself participated in a raid in China that illustrates the difficulty of finding and then shutting down counterfeiters.
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Either way, Tre Milano is fine with kicking those legitimate sellers out of the market as a collateral consequence of chasing counterfeiters.
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The Fed has reissued what currency collectors call the "big-headed" bills, complete with magnetic stripes and watermarks, the better to foil counterfeiters.
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Thanks to counterfeiters' imitating everything from the look of the bottles to stealing Vineland's brand name, he sells only 5% of that today.
When they walked down the trash-strewn alley to the unmarked door of the counterfeiters' lair, Nauman narrowly avoided stepping on a huge dead rat.
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"Counterfeiters are not paying tax, they are almost certainly not adhering to environmental laws or laws relating to the treatment of workers, " Trainer added.
He was the Master of the Royal Mint for 30 years, and spent a great deal of that time hunting down and capturing counterfeiters.
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Yet the total impact of its efforts against counterfeiters is negligible.
It's easy to imagine big club-forging plants as easy targets for interdiction, but in fact, counterfeiters can churn out club components in surprisingly tiny, dispersed spaces.
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The same rules that protect clothes designers and music recordings from counterfeiters are being used to protect smart device manufacturers from disabling locks that prevent unintended use.
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Sonia Stewart, spokesperson for Imperial Tobacco, added that "the legislation will make the counterfeiters' job both cheaper and easier by mandating exactly how a pack must look".
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But counterfeiters just move and reopen elsewhere, says Philip F.
Obviously, such tags would make counterfeiters' lives far more difficult.
The documents were obtained last year from an unsecured Canada Drugs-controlled website by OpSec Security, a Denver-headquartered firm hired by pharmaceutical companies to monitor potential counterfeiters and illegal importers.
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