At Cuadro Legal, we understand the importance of protecting intellectual property rights, which is why we have created new services to represent rights holders in various legal actions, whether administrative, civil, or criminal, with a special focus on the digital world.
How to Protect Your Company from Piracy and Counterfeiting?
Our mission at Cuadro Legal is to protect and defend your interests through effective legal risk management. With our new Anti-Piracy and Anti-Counterfeiting area, we reaffirm our commitment to staying abreast of trends in order to respond to your needs with specialized attorneys.
What is piracy, counterfeiting, and contraband?
Piracy: Any copy made without the consent of the copyright holder or related rights holder, or of a person duly authorized by them in the country of production, and which is made directly or indirectly from a protected work or production when the making of such copies would have constituted an infringement of copyright or a related right.
Counterfeiting: Any goods, including their packaging, that bear without authorization a trademark identical to the validly registered trademark for such goods, or that cannot be distinguished in its essential aspects from that trademark, or is confusingly similar, and thereby infringes the rights of the trademark holder in question.
Contraband: Introduction of foreign goods into national territory without compliance with current customs regulations and procedures before the competent authority and without payment of the corresponding import duties.
How Does Piracy and Counterfeiting Directly Affect Your Brand?
Counterfeiting and piracy are practices that affect companies and individuals across various industries, whether through illegal production of products, unauthorized distribution of goods, or violation of trademarks and patents. These infringements not only affect brand reputation, but can also generate substantial economic losses and jeopardize consumer confidence.
How We Protect Your Rights at Cuadro Legal
We have developed specialized, practical, and secure systems that enable the identification and prosecution of third parties who manufacture, market, and distribute products that violate intellectual property rights.. Our comprehensive approach includes actions in both the physical and digital realms, where piracy and counterfeiting also represent a growing threat. We provide:
- Market Studies.
- Controlled Purchases.
- Administrative, civil, and criminal actions.
- Training for judicial police officers – DIAN and others. (Product authenticity characteristics).
- Specialized Investigations.
- Online Protection – Monitoring and Removal.
- Border Measure Actions.
- Letters, Contracts, and Agreements.
To accomplish all of this, we work with the country’s judicial, customs, and health authorities, such as the Attorney General’s Office, DIJIN, the Customs and Fiscal Police, DIAN, CTI, Invima, and other entities as required in each case.
We Work with Specialized and Committed Attorneys
In this area, we are joined by attorneys Camilo Bernal, Santiago Pinzon and Pedro Henao, who work alongside a group of highly qualified investigators at the regional and national levels. Additionally, we have both in-house
and external investigators, which allows us to maintain a flexible approach
tailored to each client’s needs. This enables us to obtain relevant information efficiently and execute swift and effective actions.
We Are at Your Service!
If you are an intellectual property rights holder and wish to protect your work from piracy and counterfeiting, please do not hesitate to contact us. At Cuadro Legal, we are here to help you protect your interests and empower your company.
Contact us via WhatsApp and let us discuss your company.
