Pioneer In The Field Online Brand Protection Services
For any type of business, a company’s name and reputation prove to be the most valuable assets that it has. Almost all the activity of a business depends on how the consumers of its product view the company itself. However, unfortunately, the rapid expansion of online businesses means that companies are finding it more and more challenging to retain a good grip on all of the company activities. It is almost impossible to completely monitor all of the unwarranted statements about your company that can be viewed as defamatory and damaging to the company’s overall reputation and good public standing.
This is where Digital Forensics Corporation comes in. Digital Forensics Corporation has devised well-proven methods that are being used right now to ensure maximum online brand protection to stop Internet fraud and Internet harassment.
We are employing the most up-to-date and advanced technologies to monitor Internet activity and prevent copyright infringement. One of such innovative software applications, the Web.Sweep, allows to protect your online material from any unauthorized use.
Digital Forensics Corporation has a highly-qualified professional team of IP Cyber Detectives that can be used for the following to ensure the protection of your brand on the web:
- Spotting IP Infringement
- Tracking Stolen Goods
- Finding out the persons involved in the criminal activity
- Carrying out investigations
- Undercover purchases
- Investigating activities done on eBay and Online Auction
- Investigating business processes involving counterfeit goods
- Carrying out Parallel Trade Investigations
- Detecting and Identifying Coupon Scammers
- Identifying Anonymous Defamers
- Tracking Cyber Squatters
- Gathering info on Cyber Intelligence
- Conducting Cyber Fraud Investigations
- Monitoring activity on social media
We have a team of highly motivated and highly-qualified researchers and investigators who are concerned with intricate details, who will clearly outline what you need to do and come up with the most suitable parameters for search that ensure online brand protection. Contact Digital Forensics Corporation, and get started on the journey for security! We are ready to embark on a trip with you, to help you protect and secure your company’s image and brand. We will provide you with the equipment and knowhow to allow you monitor your company online.
Copyright Infringement Investigation – Curb Copyright Infringement Today
It is not always easy to keep one’s eye on the intellectual property all the time. This is especially true in the case of easily reproducible property such as text, music, software or some other medium that requires unsophisticated equipment to duplicate. Pictures, words, original creative works… with recent technological breakthroughs and our increasingly globalized economy, everything is fair game, and often there seems to be little or no recourse that an owner can take.
A very good example is the Internet. Once a relatively modest place where users had their personal homepages, budding storefronts and technology-related forums, the Internet has now been transformed into a global front for copyright infringement. Users have become acquainted with copying and pasting like the back of their hands. However, it does not stop there. The phenomenon has reached the extent at which many brand owners and owners of content are now being forced to employ ingenious ways to keep people from illegally making use of their original text and photos. Books are posted online in their entirety hours after being released. And let’s not forget the most widely-publicized method of infringement, the rampant copying and distributing of music, movies and software through use of file sharing networks and disc burning utilities. On the World Wide Web, copyright infringement is practically ubiquitous, and to those who develop the content in the first place, the effects can be quite detrimental. The very existence of copied content often leads to the dilution of brand appeal, reputation damage, and direct loss of revenue.
Patent Investigations & Infringement Analysis
If you have some brilliant ideas for business, strategy and the like, you certainly require a patent that is securely protected from counterfeiting to ensure that your brand or company name continue to be outstanding amongst competitors or similarly aligned business strategies or ideas. We are a top-executive company that provides a wide range of patent litigation support services that we especially design to protect your intellectual property from getting into the hands of unscrupulous entities. We have a highly qualified team of executives that will ensure the perpetual security of your claims and patents.
We are a well-established business that extends its influence across all platforms around the globe. Therefore, we have accumulated great experience over the years working in various situations and environments catering for a wide range of customers. This alone will convince you to put your confidence in our professional ability to help you identify individuals that may be infringing your rights to the patents that you own. We also provide professional assistance in investigating the activities of some of your competitors to see if they are unlawfully using your patents. We conduct inquiries and examinations through in-depth Internet research. This includes thoroughly digging deep into the relevant databases and calling the suspected individuals anonymously over the telephone, or contacting them through e-mail. Our undercover professional agents can also do the “dirty” work of conducting on-site physical investigations.
Product Diversion & Gray Market Investigations
Digital Forensics Corporation is a company that has been around for some time now. Having amassed a wealth of experience by working with different customers at various levels and in various fields, we are now able to easily identify the tell-tale signs of product diversion and parallel trade. We also know the most common fields in which such unscrupulous practices most often occur: export sales, product promotions, excess merchandise “destruction” and charitable donations.
Stemming from our skill that we have accumulated over the years, we are able to quickly identify the different ways in which product diversion and parallel trade are being practiced in any particular case. We can trace every instance of such prohibited practices. Our qualified team of professionals are always ready to dig into all files and records thoroughly and in the shortest time possible. Our experts usually make comparisons with the original contracts, assess correspondence between the product manufacturer and distributors, as well as analyze bills of sale, shipping orders, bills of lading, warehouse receipts, and other transportation invoices.
Product diversion and parallel trade can only be possible through the involvement of someone within the legitimate distribution network, who can do this either intentionally or through improper conducting of work processes. We are able to form a network of informants who work in collaboration with undercover workers functioning as agents within the distribution channels. This tight-knit process will enable us to come up with information on how exactly the whole process is being implemented, and the best methods of curbing it. After this thorough analysis and detective work, we always document every result and finding. We then construct the most effective method to curb these activities.
We understand that the idea of increasing your company’s business activities to the international arena can be a very fulfilling thing. At the same time, we also know that this should be done with the utmost caution, because failure to properly secure products against criminal activity can lead to major losses of your expanding company. Questions that always arise in an entrepreneur’s mind when faced with such a scenario are: What are the necessary procedures to take when a foreign trader wants to be involved in the distribution of your products overseas? What information can you get, and how reliable will it be, on this prospective agent? What is the company’s track record in terms of business integrity? For instance, when a well-established product diverters often have companies that exist only on paper, and an investigation will reveal that they never own a single company. How do you avoid illegal product dealings by this prospective agent and, thus, ensure the safety of your product?
Digital Forensics Corporation plays a leading role on the world market in curbing product diversion. We have a team of very experienced and knowledgeable professionals who take on every painstaking task of investigating allegations of product diversion. By employing the use of our very modern and high-end software programs, for example, FERRET, our dedicated researchers can guarantee only the best results per your request. All the details regarding the way in which your product is handled by both internal subsidiaries and agents, all the names and contact details of the persons or companies involved, and all information on the channels being used to perpetrate such crimes, will all be made available to you at your discretion. Digital Forensics Corporation’s investigators and researchers shall be guarding your business operations from unscrupulous activities both at home and abroad.
We have a network of agents who are able to tell us about the details of product diversions in each particular case. They immediately inform us if they discover a suspected criminal activity that might be going on. We have come to understand that in the majority of cases, product diversion starts from the inside. Thieves begin with small unlawful acts, and our agents can be employed to quickly identify them and stop them before they commit further bigger crimes. We have laid-down procedures that we follow as soon as we discover some criminal activity taking place. At the same time, we will provide you with a team of expert witnesses to help you in any criminal investigations by law enforcement and the legal proceedings associated with them, so that all the perpetrators are caught by the long arm of the law, thus, preventing such acts from ever happening again in the future.
We are not limited to only this. At Digital Forensics Corporation, we provide you with preventive mechanisms to protect your product from being mishandled or diverted. We carry out thorough investigation of all documentation pertaining to business operations involving your product. We will ensure stronger cooperation between manufacturers and distributors by establishing binding contracts. We will also help educate all employees on the criminal nature of product diversion operations and the possible legal problems that are associated with its dealers.
Digital Forensics Corporation should be your first and only port of call when it comes to establishing long-lasting solutions to protect your company from having its products diverted. If you are interested in securing your business lines, or you would like to investigate certain shady deals being carried out using your products, contact us today, and we will secure your company’s future. We will ensure the delivery of your products according to your specified channels to your actual selected destinations. Not a single product shall be “lost” to an unknown port!
Some case studies
- Let us consider a couple of very typical instances in which we were involved. One of our consumer manufacturers asked our team to check whether some unscrupulous deal was re-diverting their products to unintended market destinations. Our researchers immediately started conducting an in-depth investigation of the claim. As a result, they discovered that the international trading company that they were working with would re-channel their products after they had been dispatched from the United States. Part of the consignment was transported according to the laid-down procedures. The other part, however, was being shipped to ports that were not part of the system. We then compiled our results and presented them to the customer. They proceeded and annulled all their contracts with the help of agent and law enforcement, stopped their operations and recovered all their lost capital.
- Another instance involved a manufacturer of pharmaceutical products who suspected that someone was illegally diverting their products to third world markets. A team from the Digital Forensics Corporation was employed with the purpose of deciphering the exact route through which the products were being taken all over the United States and then overseas. Initially, our team discovered a certain number of offers through their diverted wire. These offers were mainly focused on selling our client’s products at exorbitant prices. After conducting thorough examinations on the shipment info and checking the import-export operations of the company, our team discovered that the products had arrived at their original destination, the unscrupulous dealers would immediately re-route them to several other different destinations, most of which are located in developing countries. The middle agent would then prepare all the necessary documentation for the products arrived, but then ship them to unscheduled destinations for a profit. Our client was informed of these procedures and sought legal actions immediately.
Royalty Audits & Revenue Recovery
Lately, lots of stories about royalty scams and copyright infringements have been surfacing in the media. There are many stories about creative people who dedicate their time and efforts to create an original, great idea or product only to have it snatched away by some unscrupulous individuals. A large number of people had to sign away their rights to unimaginable fortunes simply because they failed to take the necessary steps to patent their ideas and products. Sadly, many firms do not emphasize on royalty auditing.
Digital Forensics Corporation is ready to protect your interests, regardless of whether you are presently bound to a royalty contract and are concerned about your compliance with the royalty provisions, or if you are still negotiating a new deal. We have highly qualified professional Royalty Auditors who can go with you the whole nine yards ensuring that you receive fair compensation amicably when recovering royalties.
Remember, details are extremely important when it comes to royalty audits. Over the years, we have encountered many cases where some miniature detail that had been either missed or ignored was responsible for substantial financial losses. Our Royalty Experts will assist in looking for, and dealing with, the problems associated with a thorough Royalty Audit, which includes the following procedures:
- All aspects of your royalty agreement are thoroughly reviewed
- The contract wording is analyzed to avoid misrepresentation
- The terms of your contract are reviewed for fairness
- Solutions are suggested taking into account your best interests
Our professional Royalty Auditors are well known globally for their high success rates in royalty recovery.
Digital Forensics Corporation has international offices and strategic alliances all over the world, eliminating the constraints associated with claims of royalty fraud worldwide. At Digital Forensics Corporation, we do everything we can to secure your interests and protect your intellectual property, thus making sure you get the royalty compliance and royalty earnings that you are supposed to get. Contact us by phone today, and we will help you start securing your future.
Case Studies
- A high-end tech-developer asked us to audit their royalty payments. No routine audit had been conducted in the space of two years. After requesting the financial records that were supposed to be supporting the payment our client received, we discovered that the payments were not based on revenues as required by the contract, but by liberal estimates favoring the licensee. After further analyzing the details, we discovered that many of the royalties that were supposed to be paid for overseas activity were never reported. However, we managed to recover more than a few million dollars for our client.
Product Tampering & Consumer Safety Risks
It is hard to forget the classic product tampering case that resulted in the deaths of 7 people in Chicago between 12 September and 1 October 1982. Deaths were caused by cyanide poisoning that followed after people took Tylenol. The Tylenol manufacturers were certainly not to blame. However, the amount of financial damage that they suffered as a result of the incident was unbelievable. For several months after the incident, the Washington Food and Drug Administration had 270 incidents where product tampering or package tampering was involved.
Even after so many years this incident still resonates with us. The incident resulted in a packaging and safety precaution revolution. Today, even the most unimportant and seemingly ordinary products come in tamper-proof packaging and tight safety seals. However, product tampering is spread across the board in all areas of business, being more represented in some than in others. In severe cases, product-tampering has been known to directly cause permanent health debilitations, severe illness, or even death.
Manufacturers need to deal with product tampering as the number one priority. The things to consider include:
- Ways of curbing product tampering
- Ways of protecting the product from getting into the hands of criminals who might use it to inflict harm on other people, leading to the loss of company name’s reputation
- The best safety methods for the product
- The best methods of avoiding product tampering
Digital Forensics Corporation is able to provide you with all the answers and assistance you need. We have many years of experience in product tampering prevention: we have done many extensive studies about different ways of product packaging, which has certainly made us a leader in the industry of product tampering technologies. Today you can become part of a broad spectrum of a global professional environment at Digital Forensics Corporation for the safety and protection of your most-valid products and, ultimately, the reputation of your company’s name.
Guarding against product tampering is not an easy task, and it requires a very specialized and professional approach. We are ready to sit down with you at your convenience and discuss the options that we have made available for you to protect you from product tampering or such kinds of criminal activities. You can contact Digital Forensics Corporation today to receive valuable information on the methods that we implement for our respected customers. This might be an ultimate determinant, not only for ensuring that your most-valued company name maintains an impeccable reputation, but also for keeping many lives from suffering the fate of the Tylenol victims.
CopyShield from Digital Forensics Corporation
So what can be done to stem the ever-rising tide of infringement in this virtual (as well as the traditional brick-and-mortar) environment? The answer is CopyShield from Digital Forensics Corporation.
CopyShield is a unique copyright security service that is aimed at looking for places where material has been plagiarized and copyrights infringed both online and in the traditional media. It finds the plagiarizers and curbs their unauthorized activity. If you have concerns regarding about students freely copying work, or some unscrupulous individual stealing the content on your website. Or maybe you are worried about the unauthorized use of your original work, CopyShield can help protect your interests and keep your treasured intellectual property assets safely under lock.
