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The wait for Nike’s official “France World Champions shirt” causes a flood of fakes to circulate in China
Less than a week after France’s FIFA World Cup Final victory, counterfeit models of their World Champions shirt with two…
Giving brands the power to fight online counterfeiters!
SnapDragon have recently launched Swoop, the automated brand monitoring platform for designers, manufacturers and retailers, the first of its kind…
Online brand protection, why bother?
Brand protection is a complex business – key to reputation, brand value/share price, customer loyalty and, crucially, customer safety. With…
British IP Day 4th July 2018
Every year, on April 26th, the world celebrates World Intellectual Property Day. Today, July 4th, we celebrate British Intellectual Property…
We’ve been shortlisted for the IP Champion Award!
SnapDragon is delighted to be shortlisted for the Alliance for Intellectual Property’s IP Champion Award 2018! The award aims to recognise…
The top 5 reasons to fight infringements of your brand online
Does fighting online infringement seem like a constant battle for your business, wasting your valuable time and resources? Or do…
World Anti-Counterfeiting Day 2018 – Five Reasons NOT TO BUY Counterfeits
SnapDragon protect against counterfeit products every day, all day, for businesses of different sizes and sectors. Today in particular is…
Introducing Swoop by SnapDragon – the first publicly available brand monitoring tool
SnapDragon is proud to launch Swoop, our new automated brand monitoring platform for designers, manufacturers and retailers, the first of…
World Intellectual Property Day 2018!
Every year on 26 April we celebrate World Intellectual Property Day and we are particularly excited about the theme for…
This World Health Day watch out for the health hazards of counterfeits
Today is World Health Day (Saturday 7th April) and we all know the importance of keeping healthy, right?
SnapDragon Wins STEM Ambition Award
SnapDragon has been recognised for encouraging women into STEM at the AccelerateHER Awards. The awards, which were held on International…
Counterfeits: The Dark Side of E-commerce
It used to be that counterfeit goods were contained to street corners and back alley lanes in Asia, but now…
London Toy Fair 2018
The SnapDragon team is excited to attend our very first Toy Fair at Olympia London on the 23rd – 25th…
Facebook is accused of failing to halt the trade of counterfeit goods online…
There has been coverage in the press recently about the biggest investigation in Britain into fake goods on social media…
Introducing Michelle Novenson…
SnapDragon is made up of a team of tenacious, experienced, multi-lingual professionals who know what it takes to defend a…
What’s on your plate? The threat of food fraud
Have you ever thought about counterfeit cuisine while tucking into your Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner? Food fraud, the criminal activity of making profit by…
How to spot fakes in the toy and nursery industry
Counterfeit goods are fake items deliberately made to look genuine. The issue of their prevalence within the luxury brand industry…
We’re exhibiting at ABC Kids Expo 2017!
SnapDragon is delighted to be exhibiting at ABC Kids Expo on 17 – 19 October in Las Vegas where we…
Don’t miss our FREE seminar at Kind & Jugend 16 September 2017
FREE SEMINAR: Hot Tips for Protecting Your Brand Online, Saturday 16th September at 2.30pm in the Trend Forum.
What you need to know about protecting colour logos in the EU
Historically, national trademark offices in Europe had been divided about the scope of protection given to black and white trademarks….
Kellogg v Kokkinakis: the “Special K” trademark case
Kellogg’s is taking Australian tennis player Thanasi Kokkinakis to court over his attempt to trademark his “Special K” nickname. The…
Nestlé loses EU Kit Kat trademark: what are the implications for businesses?
In December 2016, the General Court of the European Union (EGC) dismissed Nestlé’s attempt to register the four-fingered shape of…
To link or not to link… is now the question if copyright may be infringed
The European Court of Justice (CJEU) has recently ruled that posting hyperlinks to copyright-protected works published without their author’s consent…
All you need to know about using copyrighted music on YouTube
With more than 1 billion monthly users, YouTube is the world’s largest video sharing platform; in 2012, only seven years…
Drugs that kill – the human cost of counterfeit medicines
‘Drug counterfeiting is not a problem of intellectual property. It is first and foremost a problem of public health. This…
