IP PROBE – Blog

One of many things a New York Times article titled, “A Small Table Maker Takes On Alibaba’s Flood of Fakes,” published onContinue Reading

11th Annual IP Crime Conference will take place on 28 & 29 August – New York City, U.S.A – United NationsContinue Reading

The irony of what’s reported in this June 7, 2017 article titled, “Chinese Factories Fake Shipping Addresses to Sell Counterfeit Air Jordans”Continue Reading

WASHINGTON—U.S. Customs and Border Protection launched the “The Truth Behind Counterfeits” campaign today to raise awareness of the dangers andContinue Reading

The widely reported decision of the Supreme Court that limits the ability of plaintiffs  (often ‘patent trolls’) to sue outsideContinue Reading

The following shared article titled, “Uber Threatens to Fire Star Engineer in Legal Battle Over Driverless Cars” posted in the NY TimesContinue Reading

The following shared article titled, “Tracking Down a Counterfeiter, Bottle by Bottle, and Finding Justice” was published in the Corporate CounselContinue Reading

The following shared article titled, “Growth of Online Shopping Spurs Trade in Counterfeit Products,” was published in the Baltimore Sun onContinue Reading

In a November 2016 article in the New York Times titled: Counterfeiting Trade Settles Into a New York Standby: Self-StorageContinue Reading

The following article was written and published by the World Intellectual Property Review (WIPR) on March 15, 2017.  “In FebruaryContinue Reading

CASE STUDY In one of our recent investigations, a container leaves China en-route to a U.S. importer. The “bill ofContinue Reading

The BASCAP paper on ‘Roles and Responsibilities of Intermediaries: Fighting counterfeiting and piracy in the supply chain’ sets out stepsContinue Reading

On December 23, 2016, IP Fridays.com published their podcast interview with French IP attorney Isabelle Bissey Pierre about enforcing IPContinue Reading

Reviewed by Ron Alvarez Paul Paradise has written a novel that is not only an absorbing investigative thriller but alsoContinue Reading

I was interviewed by IP Attorney Ken Suzan (co-host of IPFridays.com) about tracking IP “Proceeds of Crime” and money laundering,Continue Reading

Knowing what U.S. government resources are dedicated to the investigation and prosecution of IP crime is essential for brand ownersContinue Reading

By Ron Alvarez Katherine couldn’t fall back to sleep. She rose out of bed slowly, careful not to wake herContinue Reading

As another school year is about to begin, it is a good time for us IP crime and protection professionalsContinue Reading

One of the essential strategies used by brand holders to acquire information about the promoters behind the counterfeiting of theirContinue Reading

It was widely reported in late May that Chinese authorities conducted a raid in the Guangzhou region, and seized 33,000Continue Reading

I was reading an article in The Economist yesterday titled, “Counterfeiting and piracy: Stamping it out: As China grew richerContinue Reading

On June 20, 2016, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Global Intellectual Property Center (GIPC) released a study titled, “Measuring theContinue Reading

Title: PUERTO RICANS IN PARIS—Released June 10, 2016 Two NYPD counterfeit detective specialists (of Puerto Rican descent) get a visitContinue Reading

In my previous post titled, “Assessment of Jurisdictional Public and Private IP Crime Resources,” I said, “One basic complication toContinue Reading

The following extract is recommendations made to IP rights/brand holders to consider in utilizing and selecting private investigators to assistContinue Reading

Key to effectively responding to IP violations is to have a global intimacy of IP’s exploitation in the marketplace, andContinue Reading

The theft of American IP is about much more than the aggregation of big numbers. It is also the collectionContinue Reading

My name is Ron Alvarez. I’m a former NYPD lieutenant; licensed private investigator, and freelance writer. My primary purpose inContinue Reading