Intellectual property
rights and abuse of those rights has become a global problem thanks, in
part, to the Internet. Information today can be moved around the world
in an instant, meaning organisations need to be vigilant in their
dealings both offline and online.
Intellectual property (IP) can be misused in a number of ways that range from innocent use of other people’s property without correctly compensating the owner, right through to deliberately using a company’s IP with intent to leverage from its success or undermine its brand integrity.
What is Intellectual Property?
Intellectual property is that which is the property of an inventor or owner, pertaining to ideas, processes and outputs of a product or service. This IP is typically protected under local and international copyright law.
How Intellectual Property Theft Occurs
It has been proven that much intellectual property theft takes place from internal sources. Disgruntled staff and employees leaving the company are the primary source. Increasingly, as production systems become globalised, IP theft is taking place at the point of original production.
Examples of Intellectual Property Theft
The fraudulent use of a company’s brand online to lead the end user to believe they are dealing with a large, reputable company. This also applies to purchasing goods online that use the brand name but are counterfeit.
Sales staff leaving and taking their contact list or worse, selling the list to people who may use it for fraudulent gain.
Streaming or sharing content when there is no permission from the content provider to do so.
Fraudulently using a company’s brand identity and name in a search engine optimisation tool kit. Many search engines already have fail-safes in place that detect and de-prioritise this kind of activity but it can be very hard to detect and is usually long after the damage has been done.
How IFW Protects Your IP
Internet Fraud Watchdog works around the clock, around the world, to tackle theft of intellectual property. IFW has a comprehensive system of identifying, tracking, disrupting, and in some cases eradicating, online fraud, particularly where theft of intellectual property is involved.
If the theft involves selling competitive products online, Internet Fraud Watchdog already has software in place that is recognised by major auction and business to business websites which allows us automatically to demand the removal of such conten
Intellectual property (IP) can be misused in a number of ways that range from innocent use of other people’s property without correctly compensating the owner, right through to deliberately using a company’s IP with intent to leverage from its success or undermine its brand integrity.
What is Intellectual Property?
Intellectual property is that which is the property of an inventor or owner, pertaining to ideas, processes and outputs of a product or service. This IP is typically protected under local and international copyright law.
How Intellectual Property Theft Occurs
It has been proven that much intellectual property theft takes place from internal sources. Disgruntled staff and employees leaving the company are the primary source. Increasingly, as production systems become globalised, IP theft is taking place at the point of original production.
Examples of Intellectual Property Theft
The fraudulent use of a company’s brand online to lead the end user to believe they are dealing with a large, reputable company. This also applies to purchasing goods online that use the brand name but are counterfeit.
Sales staff leaving and taking their contact list or worse, selling the list to people who may use it for fraudulent gain.
Streaming or sharing content when there is no permission from the content provider to do so.
Fraudulently using a company’s brand identity and name in a search engine optimisation tool kit. Many search engines already have fail-safes in place that detect and de-prioritise this kind of activity but it can be very hard to detect and is usually long after the damage has been done.
How IFW Protects Your IP
Internet Fraud Watchdog works around the clock, around the world, to tackle theft of intellectual property. IFW has a comprehensive system of identifying, tracking, disrupting, and in some cases eradicating, online fraud, particularly where theft of intellectual property is involved.
If the theft involves selling competitive products online, Internet Fraud Watchdog already has software in place that is recognised by major auction and business to business websites which allows us automatically to demand the removal of such conten
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