Articles and Speeches
Business As Usual: Think of the battle against counterfeiting simply as a normal expense
May 2, 2011
Christopher S. Finnerty
, Morgan T. Nickerson
As appeared in Corporate Counsel
Technology has taken counterfeiting from a back-alley business to a $500 billion-a-year enterprise. While counterfeiting has existed for thousands of years, the Internet, ease of global shopping, and online payments have brought counterfeiting into every consumer's living room. Indeed, unfettered counterfeit sales are among the most pwowerful dtrimental market forces to a manufactuer.