Bangkok--Jul 7--PC & Associates Consulting
The ECID police, SHARP and CANON jointly cracked down on big partnerships of fake photocopier toner products in Bangkae, Bangkok.
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha and Canon Kabushiki Kaisha initiated their campaign in Thailand against fake photocopier toners bearing the "SHARP" and
"Canon" trademarks. Sharp and Canon warn consumers to be aware of low quality
counterfeit photocopier toner products with forged "SHARP" and "Canon" trademarks on the packaging designed to fool consumers into believing that they are buying genuine high-quality goods. The counterfeiters have capabilities to produce packaging that are almost identical to the original products, as evidenced from the latest seizure on June 29, 2005, in Bangkae, Bangkok.
Tilleke & Gibbins together with members of the ECID police, jointly executed another round of raids against a large limited partnership, selling many fake photocopiers toner products located at Bangkae.Fake photocopiers toner with the value accounted almost a million Baht were seized.
The aim of this sweep is to arrest and prosecute infringers at the supplier level in order to cut-off the source of the counterfeit products and to keep the fakes from being distributed to retailers. The seizure of these fakes will prevent contaminating the market with sub-standard quality goods that may even damage the machinery that the fakes are used in.
As a result of the sweep, the Managing Partner of the limited partnership will be arrested and face up to 400,000 Baht in fines and/or up to 4 years of imprisonment for trademark infringement.
Since the start of this year, SHARP and CANON have undertaken extensive
investigations to identify suppliers and retailers dealing in the fake photocopier toner products. Many of these investigations focused on the suppliers' trading activities in Bangkok. Naturally, since the counterfeiters do not invest in Research & Development and cannot offer consumers state of the art products, the ink used to fill the toner cartridges were noticeably poor in quality. Moreover, there is no quality control in the production of the counterfeit goods, which poses as a potential safety threat for consumers that use the inferior fakes. In the interest of protecting SHARP and CANON's brand image and consumer safety,
SHARP, CANON and Tilleke & Gibbins are hopeful that this campaign will positively effect the distribution and sales of counterfeit SHARP and CANON products.
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Tilleke & Gibbins International Ltd.
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