Stop Fake Products From Draining Your Profits: Remove Counterfeits in Shopee & Lazada

In today's booming e-commerce landscape, Shopee and Lazada are powerhouses for Malaysian businesses. But with this success comes a dark side – counterfeiting. Fake products not only damage your brand reputation but also steal your hard-earned profits. Here at Boon IP, we understand the frustration and can help you fight back.

The Problem of Counterfeits

Counterfeits hurt brand image, customer trust, and sales. Counterfeits are made with inferior materials and lack the quality control of genuine products. When customers receive an imitation, they associate that negative experience with your brand, even if they bought a fake.

Why Shopee & Lazada Removals?

Removing counterfeits on online platform is not just about protecting brands, it's about creating a trustworhy and positive experience for everyone involved. It benefits brands by ensuring a fair marketplace, protects customers from low-quality products and ultimately strengthens Shopee's & Lazada's reputation as a leading e-commerce platform.

Boon IP's Counterfeit Removal Service:

Our service involves identifying the seller and counterfeit products, crafting effective takedown notices, and handling communication with the platforms. Clients can focus on their business by saving time and effort.

Contact us for a free consultation to discuss specific needs and how Boon IP can help.

• Tel: 03-27262554 and visit website (boon.com.my).

Inventor urges govt to set up special body to protect patents

The government was today urged to create a special body to protect patents against piracy.

According to an inventor, Md Nayan Salleh, 63, the measure was needed because the existing act was unable to protect inventions and innovations which can boost national economy.

“I believe it’s time for the government to protect inventors so that their inventions will not be plagiarised by those seeking profits,” he said when met here, today.

“The 1993 Patent Act is still inadequate to protect inventors when their inventions are copied by irresponsible people, making many inventors reluctant to create new inventions,” he said here today.

Md Nayan who is also the managing director of Kitaran Potensi Sdn Bhd, with 22 years’ experience in the invention field claimed he was also a victim when the Food Waste Products, Fat and Grease Filtration and Separation System (Simpak) which he patented on Jan 1, 2009 was plagiarised until he lost about RM1 million.

“The government, especially the Ministry of Finance, has to make it compulsory for any company applying for the tender to list patents registered with the Patent Act to prevent copyright infringement,” said Md Nayan who has been involved with inventions since 1996.

Md Nayan said he has now put on hold about eight new innovations including pri-Aedes (Aedes destroyer) which does not use any chemicals instead only waves to trap mosquitoes.

“The use of poison will not destroy mosquitoes and can damage the environment,” said Nayan who did not want to produce his inventions for fear they may be plagiarised.

Md Nayan achieved success when he won three international-awards, including a gold medal and two silver medals in the International Scientific Inventions Competition in Geneva, Switzerland in 1996, 1997 and 1998 and received the National Genius Award (2003), the National Innovation Award (2015) and the National level ‘Anugerah Tokoh Maulidur Rasul’ in 2009. — Bernama

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The inventors dilemma is a classic case of suggesting a solution which is somehow leaked to a competitor which then won the job.

How to Identify Genuine Milo Packaging

Milo Malaysia issued the following guide on how to identify genuine Milo packaging over fake Milo packaging.

Microsoft Loses in Uniloc Appeal, Gets Reappraisal For Damages

Microsoft Corp. has lost in an appeal against the overturning of a $388 million verdict in a patent case filed by Uniloc USA Inc. and Uniloc Singapore Private Ltd.
The appeals court reinstated the decision in favor of the companies.

However, it called for new trials to assess the amount of damages that the software giant will have to pay for the patent infringement.

The court said that the $388 million verdict was “fundamentally tainted by the use of a legally inadequate methodology.”

Uniloc has accused Microsoft of infringing its intellectual property concerning technology used in Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system and some programs in its Microsoft Office suite used to deter piracy.

The patent that the companies allege Microsoft of infringing belongs to Uniloc Singapore Private Ltd. and is exclusively licensed to Uniloc USA Inc.

The case, which says that Microsoft infringed on a patent filed by Uniloc’s Ric Richardson, has been first filed by Uniloc on 2003. - Social Barrel

The Real Price of Fakes

A case between Hewlett-Packard and Times Darkhorse Technology Co demonstrates the courts' determination to combat IP crime.

Hewlett-Packard sued Darkhorse Technology for dealing in counterfeit Hewlett-Packard computer printers. The defendant - Chen Shenghui, the manager of Darkhorse Technology - purchased fake Hewlett-Packard printers to sell to his customers. In May 2009 Hewlett-Packard lodged a complaint with the Haidan branch office of the Beijing Administration for Industry and Commerce, which investigated Chen and seized a large number of counterfeit printers. The counterfeit goods discovered at Darkhorse Technology's premises were valued at Rmb1 million.

The case was transferred to the police before being taken up by the Public Prosecutor's Office. In December 2009 Haidian District Court found Darkhorse Technology guilty of the attempted sale of commodities with counterfeit trademarks and fined it Rmb200,000. As the individual directly responsible for the infringement, Chen was sentenced to one year's imprisonment and was fined Rmb150,000. - Wan Hui Da Firm & Intellectual Property Agency

Genuine Effort to Combat Video Piracy

Do Malaysians support video piracy? The following video advertisement shows a new perspective of Malaysians towards video piracy.