The fight against digital piracy and counterfeit goods was today (23 October 2014) boosted by £3 million of new government funding to the City of London Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU). Minister for Intellectual Property (IP), Baroness Neville-Rolfe announced the government’s funding commitment to the national crime unit at the Anti-Counterfeiting Group Conference in…

A company director from the south west of England was given eight months in prison, suspended for two years at Bristol Crown Court after previously pleaded guilty to 18 charges relating to possessing and selling counterfeit clothing, bags, headwear and toys, reports the Bristol Post. After months of surveillance and test purchases local trading standards…

Police and local trading standards officers carried out a raid in Camden on behalf of TRAP on Friday 10th October. The retail outlet on Camden High Street had been under surveillance for several months before the raid. During the raid, officers found secret store rooms and the basement to be full of counterfeit merchandise.