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Services: IPR Investigations Section
IPR Investigations Section
Anti Counterfeiting Investigations The Investigators at FIDELIFACTS are highly experienced in assisting our clients to successfully pinpoint individuals, companies and entities at the source of counterfeit or infringing products. We have worked in most industries that have issues with counterfeiters or infringers including: FMCG products- Footwear-Sportswear-Pharmaceuticals-Tobacco-Confectionery-Apparel-Software & Hardware’s-Electronic & Electric goods-White goods-Household goods-Alcohol and spirits-Beverages-Perfumes and cosmetics-Automotive-Toys-Watches-Luxury goods-Sports goods-Mobile phone’s & Accessory-Machinery- Spare part’s & tools-Stationary Items-Publications Industries And music etc. When conducting anti-counterfeiting investigations our strategies usually involve the following:
We have conducted anti-counterfeiting investigations in the following State, Union Territory, Town and Village in the including: 28 states of India- Andhra Pradesh - Arunachal Pradesh - Assam - Bihar - Chhattisgarh - Goa - Gujarat - Haryana - Himachal Pradesh - Jammu and Kashmir - Jharkhand - Karnataka - Kerala - Madhya Pradesh - Maharashtra - Manipur - Meghalaya - Mizoram - Nagaland - Orissa - Punjab - Rajasthan - Sikkim - Tamil Nadu - Tripura - Uttar Pradesh - Uttarakhand - West Bengal. 7 union territories of India- Andaman and Nicobar Island - Chandigarh - Dadra and Nagar Haveli - Daman and Diu - Delhi - Lakshadweep - Puducherry. Major Town's of India- Agartala - Agra - Ahmedabad - Ahmednagar - Aizwal - Ajmer - Akola - Aligarh - Allahabad - Alwar - Ambala - Ammakandakara - Amravati - Amreli - Amritsar - Anand - Anantapur - Anklesvar (Ankleshwar) - Anuppur - Araria - Arcot - Arrah - Aruppukkottai - Asahkjh - Asansol - Ashok Nagar - Ashtamichira - Aurangabad, Bihar - Aurangabad (Maharashtra) - Asurbandh (Jharkhand) - Azamgarh - Ballabhgarh - Baharampur - Bahadurgarh (Harayana) - Bahraich - Balaghat - Balasore - Balia - Balrampur - Banda - Bengaluru* (Bangalore) - Banganapalle - Banswara - Banur - Barachakia - Baramati - Baran - Bardhaman (Burdwan) - Bareilly - Barnala - Baripada - Barmer - Barrackpur - Barwani - Banswara - Beawar - Belgaum - Bellary - Betul - Bhagalpur - Bhavani - Bhandara - Bharatpur - Bharuch - Bhavnagar - Bhilai - Nagar - Bhimavaram - Bhiwandi - Bhiwani - Bhopal* - Bhubaneswar* - Bhuj - Bhuvnesh - Bidar - Bihar - Sharif - Bijnaur, - UP - Bikaner - Bilaspur, - Chhattisgarh - Bilaspur, - Himachal - Pradesh - Bilgha, - Punjab - Bodh - Gaya - Bokaro - Steel - City - Bongaigaon - Buldana - Burhanpur - Buxar - Bulandshahr - Barh - Balpur - Kozhikode / Calicut - Cambay (Khambat) - Chamoli - Gopeshwar - Champawat - Chamrajnagar - Chandannagar - Chandigarh - Chapirevula - Chapra - Charkhari - Charkhi - Dadri - Chandrapur - Chengalpattu - Chennai* (formerly - Madras) - Cherunniyoor - Chhatarpur - Chhindwara - Chikmagalur - Chiplun - Chitradurga - Chitrakoot (Dham Karwi) - Chittoor - Coimbatore - Contai - Balangir (Orissa) - Balurghat - West - Bengal - Bramhapuri (Maharashtra) - Caryobys - Coonoor - Cuddalore - Cuddapah - Cuttack - Dabra - Dadra - Dahod - Daksh - Daltonganj - Daman - Damoh - Darbhanga - Darjeeling - Datia - Davanagere - Dehgam - Dehradun* - Deoghar - Dewas - Delhi - Dhanbad - Dhar - Dharampur - Dharamsala - Dharwad - Dholka - Dhule - Dhulian - Dibrugarh - Dispur* - Dindigul - Diu - Dombivli - Duhbai - Dumdum - Durg - Durgapur - Dwarka - Ernakulam - Erode - Etah - Etawah - Eluru - Faizabad - Faridabad - Faridkot - Farrukhabad - Fatehgarh - Fatehpur - Sikri - Ferozepur Cantt. - Ferozepur City - Firozabad - Gadag* - Gadchiroli - Gandhinagar* - Gangtok* - Ganjam - Garcha, - Punjab* - Gaya - Ghaziabad - Ghazipur - Goa - Velha - Godhra - Gondiya - Gorakhpur - Greater Noida - Gulbarga - Gumla - Guna - Gundlupet - Guntur - Gurgaon - Guruharsahai - Guwahati - Gulbarga - Gudalur - Gudivada - Gwalior - Hoshiarpur - Haldia - Haldwani - Hamirpur (Himachal Pradesh) - Hamir (Uttar Pradesh) - Hanumangarh - Howrah - Harda - Harsawa - Haridwar - Hubli - Hassan - Hastinapur - Hathras - Himatnagar - Hisar - Hansi - Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh) - Hatigudda (Karnataka*) - Indore - Imphal - Jabalpur - Jaipur* - Jais - Jaisalmer - Jalalabad - Jalandhar - Jalgaon - Jagraon - Jagtial - Jammu - Jamnagar - Jamshedpur - Jaunpur - Jhabua - Jhalawar - Jhansi - Jhunjhunu - Jodhpur - Jorhat - Junagadh - Kanhangad - Kasaragod - Khopoli - Kakinada - Kalimpong - Kalpetta - Kalwa - Kalyan Dombivali - Kalyani - Kanauj - Kancheepuram - Kandla - Kannur - Kanpur - Kanyakumari - Karaikal - Karaikudi - Karimnagar - Karjat - Karnal - Karur - Karwar - Kavaratti* - Khammam - Khandwa - Khanna - Khamanon - Kharagpur - Khargone - Kheda - Khilchipur - Khuldabad - Kirandul - Kochi (formerly Cochin) - Kohima* - Kokrajhar - Kolhapur - Kolar - Kolhapur - Kolkata* (formerly - Calcutta) - Kollam - (formerly Quilon) - kollappally - Konark - Korba - Kota - Kotdwara - Kothagudem - Kottayam - Kovilpatti - Koyampattur - Kozhikode - (formerly Calicut) - Kulpahar - Kumbakonam - Kumbhraj - Kurnool - Kushinagar - Karamsad - Krishnagiri - Kurukshetra - Kashinagar, - Orissa - Lalitpur - Leh - Lucknow* - Ludhiana - Lamka - latur - Lonavla - Lajpat - Madanapalle - Madgaon - Madikeri - (Mercara) - Madurai - Mahabaleswar - Mahabubnagar - Mahe - Mahoba - (Ancient - Name - Mahotsav - Nagar) - Mahwa - Malout - Mandsaur - Mangalagiri - Mangalore - Mapusa - Marmagao - Mathura - Machilipatnam - Mahad - Meerut - Melattor - Mira-Bhayandar - Mirzapur - Moga - Mohali - Mokama - Moradabad - Motihari - Mount - Abu - Mukatsar - Mullanpur - Mumbai* - (formerly - Bombay) - Mussoorie - Murwara - (Katni) - Murshidabad - Muzaffarnagar* - Muzaffarpur - Mysore - Nadiad - Nagapattinam - Nagarkurnool - Nagercoil - Nagina, - UP - Nagpur - Nainital - Nalgonda - Nanded - Nandyal - Nandurbar - Nangal - Narasaraopet - Narsimhapur - Narsinghgarh - Nashik - Navi - Mumbai - (New - Mumbai) - Navsari - Nawalgarh - Neemuch - Nellore - New - Delhi* - or - Delhi - New - Guntur - NOIDA - (Gautam - Budh - Nagar) - Nizamabad - Nirmal, - Andhra - Pradesh - Nurmahal, - Punjab - Nurpur, - Himachal - Pradesh - Palai - Palwal - Panaji* - ("Panjim") - Panchkula - Pandharpur - Panipat - Panna - Panvel - Pasla, - Punjab - Patan - Pathankot - Patiala - Patna* - Patratu,Jharkhand - Pilibhit - Pimpri - Chinchwad - Ponda - Puducherry* - (formerly - Pondicherry) - Porbandar - Port - Blair* - Pratapgarh - Pune - Puri - Pushkar - Punalur - Quilon - (now - Kollam) - Ranchi* - Rajsthan - Raichur - Raigarh - Raisen - Raipur - Rajahmundry - Rajampet - Rajgarh - Rajkot - Rajnandgaon - Ramanathapuram - Rameshwaram - Rampur - Ranikhet - Rasheed - Ratangarh - Ratlam - Ratnagiri - Raurkela - Rae - Bareli - Ravulapalem - Renukoot - Rewa - Ringawa - Rishikesh - Roorkee - Sagars - Salem - Samastipur - Sanawad - Sangli - Sangamner - Sathyamangalam - Satara - Satna - Saharanpur - Sehore - Seoni - Shajapur - Shegaon - Sheopur - Shevgaon - Shillong - Shrivardhan - Shivani - (in - Chikmagalur - District, - Karnataka) - Sholapur - shrirampur - shrigonda - Siddipet - Sikar - Silchar - Silvassa - Sindhanur - Shimla - Shimoga - Shirala - Siliguri - Singrauli - Sirohi - Sironj - Sitamarhi - Siwan - Sonipat - Sriganganagar - Srikakulam - Srinagar - Surat - Suratgarh - Surendranagar - Sitapur - Surthkal - Talwara - Tamluk - Tandur - Tezpur,Assam - Tenali - Thane - Thanjavur - Thathawata - Thiruvallur - Thrikkannamangal - Thrissur(formerly - Trichur) - Thodupuzha - Thoothukudi, - (formerly - Tuticorin) - Tindivanam - Tinsukia - Tirupattur* - (formerly - Tirupattur) - Tiruchirappalli - Tirunelveli - Tirupathi - Tirupur - Tiruvarur - Tikamgarh - Thirthahalli - Thiruvananthapuram* - (formerly - Trivandrum) - Tzudikong - Udaipur - in - Rajasthan - Udaipur - in - Tripura - Udhampur - in - Jammu - & - Kashmir - Udupi - (Udipi) - Udhagamandalam - (formerly - Ootacamund - or - Ooty) - Ujjain - Ulhasnagar - Unnao - Uttarpara - in - West - Bengal - Vadodara - Vaikom - Vallabh - Vidhyanagar - Valsad - Vandavasi - Vapi - Varanasi - (aka - Banaras, - Kashi) - Vasai - Vasco - da - Gama, - Goa - Vellore - Vidisha - Vijayawada - Viluppuram - Virar - Visakhapatnam - Vizianagaram - Virudhachalam - Vyara - Warangal - Wardha - Wani – Wayanad Trademark, Copyright, Design and Patent Infringement Investigations FIDELIFACTS PRIVATE LIMITED: Where Trademark, Copyright, Design & Patent investigations are conducted in a discreet & confidential manner and all information is corroborated with at least two sources wherever possible. At FIDELIFACTS, we undertake assignments on behalf of clients to detect the infringements of copyrights & trademarks by conducting simultaneous market survey in various cities. Subsequently the perpetrators of counterfeiting are raided which invariably has a wide spread effect and the menace of counterfeiting is considerably checked. Our expert team of investigators and the constant liaison with law enforcing agencies ensure that the copyright and trademark investigations culminate and reach the only logical conclusion that the unscrupulous entities indulging in copyright and / or trademark infringements are brought to book. If you want your copyright & trademark protected from infringement, FIDELIFACT will happily offer you complete protection at an affordable cost. On the basis of information provided by you we shall make research from various sources like Corporate Registrations, Falls Business name entries, research directories and internet databases to establish a profile of the entity we are investigating. After having established the owner, we contact the individual or the company discreetly and enquire from them about the use of their mark. The investigation repot on completion may include:
On-site Investigations throughout India FIDELIFACTS has established a national network of investigators who can assist with matters of Trademark violations, in-use geographical scope and counterfeit goods when they can only be solved with proper backup. Procurement of Product Samples/Literature/Photographs We are often able to obtain brochures, business cards or letterheads of the other company or product literature displaying use of the mark in question, sample products and/or photographs of signage or business places. Kindly ensure that all these items are requested in advance. Parallel Trade Investigations We have a vast experience in assisting our clients to identify the source of diverted product and illegal internal activity. Our head office is in New Delhi and we have branches in Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Jaipur, Ahemadabad, Cochin and Chandigarh, that manages other residential investigations all over India. We have conducted investigations in most industries that have grey market issues and have assisted brand owners by gathering evidence to allow the client to resolve their internal and external issues. Some of the methods followed when conducting these investigations are as follows:
We can assist the client with choosing and liaising with local lawyers in tough areas where they do not usually have any IP expertise. Gray Market investigations Grey Market Goods and Counterfeit Products are costing manufacturers crores of rupees annually. These items are often manufactured in foreign countries and imported without the consent of the trade mark holder, or the products are not genuine and sold with unauthorized trademarks with intent to deceive consumers. The existence of counterfeit products and the prevalence of these items being sold in the marketplace compromise quality standards, and in some cases, such as medicine, even endanger lives. FIDELIFACTS provides an extensive range of services and advice on brand protection, enforcement, and vital IP matters. FIDELIFACTS can locate witnesses, set up undercover sting operations, identify how the infiltration is made, help clients understand how products are diverted into the grey market, and build a legally sound case against the culprits. FIDELIFACTS, Grey Market Investigation service helps protect Intellectual Property Rights on one hand and improve channel relationships and safeguard financial assets on the other. Market Surveys FIDELIFACTS is capable of conducting surveys in retail and wholesale markets virtually anywhere in India. We offer market survey in which our investigators spread out into the markets, looking for counterfeit or unauthorized product at places ranging from small markets to malls and supermarkets of India top retailers. Our understanding of local cultural norms and a strong network of local contacts provides FIDELIFACTS with a clear understanding of the finesse which can affect a products standing in the marketplace. Market Surveys in appropriate conditions can serve to identify the specific market share of products as well as identify any infringing or counterfeit products and their possible source. For established clients, FIDELIFACTS investigators constantly check the market place in order to prevent the manufacture and sale of counterfeit goods in India. We offer perfect strategies to engage the counterfeiters and bring their activities to an end. Our success in such cases protects our clients from loss of consumer confidence on one hand and brand value on the other hand. IP Due Diligence Investigations Basically the purpose of due diligence is to establish whether to go ahead with the transaction at all, and if so, on what terms. Due diligence should ensure that:
Due Diligence The due diligence in most issues should start before any agreements have been begun. When the situation warrants, a purchaser should conduct at least very basic due diligence to determine whether to invest the time and effort in starting negotiations in the first place. This may involve some background investigation on the other party to the transaction, research of the markets involved and operators in those markets, and a few fast title searches on the specific IP in question. During complicated negotiations, the parties may enter into an agreement. IPR Litigation Support Investigations FIDELIFACTS understands that the foundation of any successful Intellectual property rights litigation case lies in the procurement and gathering of useful data from various sources and individuals. FIDELIFACTS specializes in gathering real time intelligence. We support law firms and in-house counsel to gather necessary supporting evidence for litigation through ground investigations, subject interviews, surveillance and other fact gathering means. We also provide a wide range of reliable and confidential legal support services. Our investigators are seasoned in litigation support techniques, and trained to provide acceptable, expert evidence when required. Additionally, all of our investigators stick to strict internal standard operating procedures and are aware not to violate local laws. We will always maintain communication with you, the client, while expediting your matter in a competent and cost effective manner. Areas of our expertise are as follows.
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