by stefanie | May 17, 2019 | World Focus
Trade wars hit the consumer most because they are the ones paying the additional tariffs added to the product. Rather than paying higher prices, consumers search for cheaper products. So do the sales of counterfeit products increase during trade war? Despite holding...
by stefanie | Oct 22, 2018 | Around the Industry
The OEM has announced that it is waging war on the practice of counterfeiting currently taking place in South Africa. HP, which is famously proactive in fighting counterfeiting, has revealed its plans to tackle the problem in South Africa, in collaboration with its...
by stefanie | Aug 30, 2018 | Around the Industry
As a new article by Anne Manning explains, an HP Fellow from Colorado State University, Steve Simske, and other researchers have been awarded a grant to further explore how to disrupt illicit supply chains. Simske has already done some work in this vein, having...
by stefanie | Jun 25, 2018 | Around the Industry
A consignment of illegal ink cartridges has been seized by Dubai police and seven people have been taken into custody. As Gulf News reports, Dh3.2 million ($871,341/€745,451) of counterfeit printer ink cartridges have been confiscated from an apartment in Dubai’s Naif...
by stefanie | May 3, 2018 | World Focus
The OEM’s Australian subsidiary has got itself into hot water over the sale of 220,000 printers designed to prevent the use of third-party cartridges. As ARN reports, as a result of this lack of transparency, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)...
