Massive $3 trillion counterfeits, IP theft up 22%, says Gieschen Consultancy April report

26 May '05

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calgary, canada based gieschen consultancy has released report on worldwide counterfeit enforcement activity (investigations, raids, seizures, arrests, charges, convictions, sentences, civil litigation, public announcements) for month of april 2005, as reported through the dopip security counterfeit intelligence report, more than 250 incidents worth $3,000,045,753,460 (us dollars) were analyzed from 42 countries.

the top 20 countries pursuing counterfeiters and pirates:

1. philippines, $3.0 trillion (usd) seizures and losses, 5 incidents.
2. usa, $30 million, 97 incidents.
3. uae, $10 million, 2 incidents.
4. uk, $4.0 million, 22 incidents.
5. south korea, $3.6 million, 1 incident.
6. saudi arabia, $2.8 million, 1 incident.
7. china, $1.9 million, 3 incidents.
8. australia, $1.6 million, 3 incidents.
9. russia, $1.4 million, 2 incidents.
10. bangladesh, $1.3 million, 3 incidents.
11. south africa, $1.1 million, 5 incidents.
12. thailand, $1.0 million, 2 incidents.
13. india, $0.9 million, 51 incidents.
14. singapore, $0.9 million, 2 incidents.
15. malaysia, $0.9 million, 12 incidents.
16. germany, 2 incidents.
17. italy, 1 incident.
18. bulgaria, 1 incident.
19. malta, 2 incidents.
20. canada, 6 incidents.

other countries include bahrain, congo, croatia, cyprus, czech republic, fiji, france, georgia, ghana, ireland, israel, ivory coast, japan, namibia, netherlands, new zealand, nigeria, norway, pakistan, taiwan, vietnam, and zimbabwe.

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