Hologram Industry News

At the third annual anti-counterfeiting summit on Sep 28-29in Washington The Coalition Against Counterfeiting and Piracy (CACP), a group of over 200 business organizations that the NAM and U.S. Chamber of Commerce have organized to strengthen intellectual property protection worldwide, announced on Sept. 28 the release of� a new “took kit” to help companies companies protect their supply chains from counterfeit products and ensure the integrity of their brand names. Source : http://www.nam.org/s_nam/doc1.asp?CID=162&DID=237580

Sleever International has introduced a new technology to help the wine and spirits industry to counter counterfeiting and forgery. The� Holosleeve is heat-shrink labels with integrated holograms will help the wine and spirits industry to counter counterfeiting and forgery. Accroding to the Sleever International the� technology could find application in the perfume, cosmetics and pharmaceutical sectors.
As per a report by� Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), alcohol and beverages are among the most counterfeited articles in the world trade. Accroding to research� study by OECD, counterfeit and pirated goods across national borders may have amounted to US$200bn (€148bn) in 2005.�
Source: http://www.plastemart.com/plasticnews_desc.asp?news_id=10733&P=P

Worlwide companies are fighting with counterfeiting,� according to a survery� brand theft is the fastest growing form of commercial piracy in the world.
Brand theft occurs when someone copies a product’s brand or logo and sells it as their own. Pirated products are often cheaper and of lower quality.� Brand theft can ruin a company’s reputation because some copies are so perfect it is almost impossible for distributors and consumers to spot the difference.

Companies that don’t take measures to protect their brands against theft expose themselves to costly lawsuits because the pirated copies are so professional, it’s impossible to prove they are not their own, he says.

Brand-label protection provides a simple brand authentication, such as an intricate watermark or hologram, which is very difficult to reproduce. Today brand theft is becoming common as technology advances and it is dangerous to buy medicine and health products from unknown sources. People should buy reputable brands from reputable companies.
Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/auckland/4167023a6497.html

CII takes a lead to form a National Committee of Intellectual Property Owners. This has been formed to address the Comprehensive needs of Intellectual Property Owners of India .It would emerge as a nodal committee which would strive towards making India a truly ‘IP Savvy Country’ encompassing IPR Policy, Protection & Enforcement issues in tandem with CII National� theme for 2007 -08 -� Building People, Building India.
Sourced From: Confederation of Indian Industry,� http://www.ciionline.org

PARIS, France- The International counterfeiting coaliation� received a 2007 global anti-counterfeiting award for its contributions to fighting fakes.� The ninth annual Global Anti-Counterfeiting Awards have recognised some of the “Big Beasts” of the international campaign against the trade in fake goods. The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) of Nigeria has won the Public Organisation award for its inspirational fight to eliminate fake medicines in Nigeria; and the tireless enthusiasm of the Nokia Corporation in combating fakes in their industry and in the marketplace generally has also been recognised in the Company category. The Association award has been won by a relative newcomer to the scene: the Brand Protection Group - Lebanon for an exceptional organisation and media campaign
http://www.iacc.org/news/index.php#18

A St. Petersburg museum dedicated to last year’s Group of Eight summit in the city lets visitors watch from behind a glass wall as a computer-generated hologram of Putin enters a room, takes a book on the history the Baltic Fleet from a cabinet, ruffles through its pages, looks out the window, and then walks out, Vedomosti reported.� As the virtual Putin leaves the hologram of his pet Labrador Connie, which sits on the carpet through the whole show, disappears into thin air. A holographic projection of a framed painting of a birch forest then appears as if it were suspended in the middle off the room. Visitors have to spend� 600 rubles for hanging out with the president.
Source: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2007/08/14/014.html

The organisers of PISEC ‘07, The Anti-Counterfeiting Forum on Brand, Product and Document Protection, today announced this year’s conference programme.�
Entitled as”Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy through Innovation, Investment & Technology”, the conference comprises a stunning array of top-level international speakers who, with delegates and industry participants, will convene in London, UK, on the 19th-21st November 2007. The conference will be focusing on exploring� opportunities and threats in the global marketplace of brand, product and image security.
The full conference programme and booking details can be viewed at: www.pisec-world.com.

WASHINGTON — China is one of the world’s largest producers of counterfeit products, ranging from designer clothes, to pirated films and music, to luggage. Many of the goods find their way into Europe and are knowingly bought as fakes by shoppers at markets and from street vendors.
The United States on Monday requested the World Trade Organization (WTO) to establish a dispute settlement panel regarding so-called China’s deficiencies in intellectual property protection. The US has been threatening a WTO complaint against China since 2005.� � The two countries have been in talks for four months, since the US first launched its challenge.

The US now wants the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body to intervene. It is hoping that China will be forced to adopt a more aggressive prosecution of those who are pirating copyrighted or trademarked materials.�
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6945173.stm

14th August, 2007, NAGPUR: The city police’s crime branch seized 3,000 pirated DVDs and CDs from a flat in Vaishali Nagar area and arrested one person in that connection. According to the police officials the� accused has been booked under different provisions of the Copyright Act.
According to Hologram manufacturers association of India statistics report on piracy this is the fifth case within 2 months.
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Nagpur/Man_held_for_piracy_3000_discs_seized/articleshow/2279303.cms

Ranchi, Aug. 10: In a first operation of its kind, police here raided six different buildings in the state capital and recovered “pirated” text books and “guides” valued at several crores. Six people were also arrested.
In a gross violation of intellectual property rights, the “pirates” printed popular books published by NCERT, Bharati Bhavan, S. Chand, Oxford University Press among other publishers. Poor quality paper, shoddy printing and missing chapters marked the pirated editions. They also did not have the publishers’ hologram. Priced lower than the original, they are, however, lapped up by buyers, among them students and parents.
Source: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070811/asp/frontpage/story_8178401.asp