PRO LEX Investigation Agency
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Infringement of patent, copyright, trademark and industrial/trade secret rights has become a phenomenon with serious consequences, causing considerable damage to owners, with counterfeiting taking on industrial and international proportions, disrupting trade and distorting the rules. Third parties often try to take advantage of the distinctiveness of a registered trade mark, the clientele and the goodwill created as a result of the use of the trade mark by the owner, a practice which is contrary to commercial custom and has negative effects on the safety and confidence of consumers in the goods or services offered to them on the market.
Over the years, our investigators have been able to solve notable cases, from the sale of counterfeit goods to the reproduction and distribution of copyrighted works. The tactics adopted by our detectives will be specially adapted to your case, when it comes to theft of intellectual property, there is no one-size-fits-all solution.
Together with you we can establish strategies for monitoring and protecting your intellectual property rights. PRO LEX Investigation Agency offers you prompt and professional services.
Beneficiaries: legal entities.
Trademark counterfeiting is the act of marketing a product under a name similar to that of a well-known trademark in order to confuse consumers. The term trademark counterfeiting/piracy refers to the intentional and unauthorized use of protected trademark names, labels, packaging, designs or trade descriptions. This practice has very negative consequences, with multinational companies around the world facing a drastic drop in revenue and loss of credibility for their brand image. Our investigators have gained experience in this area of services and come to your support with information and solutions.
Beneficiaries: legal entities.
It is important to be aware of your competitors' actions, to understand how they define their offers, what is the size and structure of the company, the range of products offered, what are the sales channels, the ways of promoting their services, promotional activities, why their products are preferred to those provided by your company. One solution in this regard would be to use the information bulletins offered by the PRO LEX Investigation Agency on competition activity (newsletter), in order to benefit from regular information on their activity and thus be able to identify solutions to increase the competitiveness of your business. Unfair competition is prohibited by European and national law. In order to gain or strengthen a competitive position in the market, economic operators use various competitive practices and strategies to achieve success. However, there are certain unfair competitive practices for which economic operators can be penalized if they violate them. Competition is an important factor for innovation, for providing better services and products at lower prices and for protecting consumer interests. The most common unfair competition practices are the following:
- anti-competitive agreements(fixing prices, sharing markets or customers, limiting production, manipulating bidding procedures etc.);
- the private exchange of individualized information between competing companies on quantities or prices they intend to charge in the future, production costs, customer lists, turnover, sales, capacities, quality, marketing plans etc.
- abuse of a dominant position, resulting from: charging unjustifiably high prices which may exploit customers; charging unrealistically low prices which may drive competitors out of the market; unjustifiably discriminating against customers; and imposing conditions unjustified trading conditions on trading partners.
- denigration of a competitor, misappropriation of customers and any other commercial practices which are contrary to honest practices and the general principle of good faith and which cause or are likely to cause damage to any market participant.
Fair competition exists when market participants comply with the rules of the applicable state or European Union legislation, while unfair competition consists of any action or act contrary to them. In order to combat these illegal competitive practices, our investigators can support you with information and solutions.
Beneficiaries: legal entities.
