Since 1998, Marksmen has conducted over 120,000 IP investigation and acquisition cases around the globe. Drawing on that experience, the following list is comprised of the top 5 things you need to know about IP investigations:
1. IP Investigations are Integral to IP Enforcement
Discovering that someone is counterfeiting your products or infringing on your IP is the easy part, proving that in court is often a challenge. IP investigations from Marksmen provide the evidence needed to enforce your IP rights and take down the bad actors. Since 1998, Marksmen has provided expert insight into IP and brand protection cases.
2. Keep it Ethical
To ensure admissibility and reliability of information, ethics should be of utmost concern and focus. While a valuable tool to the investigation, pretexting is a specialized art. With years of expertise, Marksmen has developed an ethical approach to uncovering the information you need to know, while ensuring compliance with all legal restrictions.
3. Trademark In-use Investigations
A trademark in-use investigation is the foundational type of IP investigation and one part of the trademark clearance process. Marksmen has conducted thousands of in-use investigations, with capabilities to ascertain prior use locally or any anywhere globally.
4. Advanced IP Investigations
Marksmen has over 26 years of experience conducting advanced IP Investigations. Areas of expertise range from intellectual property to business intelligence and can be conducted online or in person—anywhere in the world. Specific experience includes: Counterfeits, logos, trademarks, tag-lines, slogans, supply chains, domain names, patents, products, designs, businesses, retail stores, manufacturers, events, franchises, factories, warehouses and people.
5. Connect to Local Assets Worldwide
Having access to local trained investigators can be crucial to an investigation. Marksmen has developed a network of trained investigators around the globe who can be deployed to assist in an investigation. Whether the investigation calls for local purchasing, gathering evidence (Photographs) of IP misuse or an unauthorized factory or retail establishment, Marksmen has you covered.
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