The lawsuits follow similar action in November 2004 against eight dealers. Legal amendments in 2003 provide criminal and civil penalties for distributing software without authenticity certificates.

Impacting nearly 13.7% of all returned items in 2023, gift card and return frauds have become an unfortunate tradition among scam artists, but there's a much more sinister threat looming. This year, ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 31 -- The alleged ringleaders of a Chinese counterfeiting gang that sold at least $2 billion worth of bogus Microsoft software were sentenced Wednesday to prison terms of up to 6 1 ...

The noose appeared to be tightening around one of Europe’s largest software counterfeiting rings as a German court sentenced a second member of the network to prison yesterday and handed a sentence to ...

Microsoft continues to crack down on people it believes are counterfeiting and selling its software. On Thursday the company will add another 63 legal filings in 12 countries against individuals who ...

A court in southern China convicted 11 people on Wednesday of violating national copyright laws and participating in a sophisticated counterfeiting ring that for years manufactured and distributed ...

As the Department of Justice cracks down on software counterfeiters, two more defendants have pleaded guilty to selling bootlegged factory software on eBay Two more defendants have pleaded guilty to ...

Anti-counterfeiting enforcement in the United States stems largely from two federal statutes: the Lanham Act (codified at 15 USC Section 1051) and the Trademark Counterfeiting Act 1984 (codified at 18 ...

Microsoft has introduced a new program for testing if customers have a genuine version of its Office productivity suite, according to the company. The move is part of Microsoft’s continued efforts to ...

Two U.S men have been indicted on several software counterfeiting related charges for allegedly selling pirated software on eBay and through Web sites. The indictment, announced this week, was ...

The enforcement of IP rights in Brazil requires planning, technology, intelligence, training and coordination. This effort is supported by multiple laws, treaties and constitutional provisions, ...

The noose appears to be tightening around one of Europe’s largest software counterfeiting rings as a German court sentenced a second member of the network to prison on Monday, and handed a sentence to ...