In the new globalized economy, the pirating of intellectual property has become a major trans-national problem diluting the brand equity and profitability of large and small multi-nationals, often presenting risks even greater than large- scale frauds. In a world where the brand is company’s crown jewel, brand piracy can threaten the very life-blood of a major business.

Brand Protection Associates
Brand Protection Associates is a trusted name in the business. It has successfully targeted, with enforcement action and fought very important cases pertaining to the menacing problem of thefts of Intellectual Property Right besetting the business community. Such thefts cost heavily to a brand in the loss of profits and also eroding the integrity of reputed trademarks.

Safe-guarding intellectual property requires a multi-faceted strategy involving survey, investigation, targeting the parties and a number of other internal and external measures to protect the company’s intellectual assets.

Brand Protection Associates have the experience and capability to deliver strategic and tactical brand protection solution.
 
 

Total Brand Protection
Counterfeit goods manufactured in India are estimated at billions of rupees annually with the figure growing each year. Alarmingly, many of the counterfeit goods, produced in India are now being exported world-wide, impacting revenues and profits of companies not only in India but on their growing markets internationally also.

Brand Protection Associates focuses on the delivery of both strategic and tactical solutions to assist clients in effectively managing intellectual property and related problems. The extensive network of Premier Shield throughout the country provides an integrated platform to provide the customer with a cutting edge and sharp strategic consulting, analytical expertise and tactical support.

By making the maximum use of the latest technology, coupled with subject knowledge, awareness of the local market trends and our international resources, Brand Protection Associates can assist clients to provide coordinated global action, including markets in South Asia and the Middle East. Brand Protection Associates can provide tangible and sustainable results against, the worst and most established infringes.

Our trained and experienced investigators pool is drawn mainly from police and intelligence agencies have measured up to the client’s satisfaction with their high operational efficiency. Our clients have given a very positive feedback and appreciation for the accomplished assignments.

Range Of Activities
The road map of ground activities in such cases extends from pro-active market survey in sensitive towns/cities to identify sales outlets of spurious products and then to back track from there to whole sellers and manufacturing facilities, This is followed by obtaining warrants from the court for raid and police action. At times raids are also got conducted directly from the police on our complaints to create deterrent amongst the counterfeiters and manufacturers of spurious products.

Our Strength
Brand Protection Associates have the advantage of having all India geographic presence through its parent body, i.e. Premier Shield (www.premiershield.com), with branch offices in over 70 cities in the country. This enables BPA to avail ready-made field frame of well - positioned organizational modules at National level. This also provides dimensional reach facilitating operations across India. We have our own infrastructure and is not outsourced. According to the requirement of our clients, we sent our specialized investigating teams to target the counterfeiters to organize police enforcement action.

Our services include
1.Market survey and monitoring of duplicate products of well-known brands.
2.Targeting and intelligence collection about unethical traders indulging in piracy and
   duplication.
3. In-depth investigations & coordination in multiple raid actions by Police.
4. Consultation and providing legal assistance in procurement of General Search Warrants
    and injunction orders from the courts, for taking enforcement action against duplicators.
5. Anti-counterfeiting information management.
6. Inquiries into rogue registration of patents & trademarks.
7. Patent infringement investigation and patent dispute cases.
8. Independent verification of MNCs in-house activities & collusion of employees.
9. Working with custom services to intercept illegal goods.
10.Evidence collection, proof of use and non-use of trademarks.

The Core Team of Brand Protection Associates
The Brand Protection Associates is managed and advised by well known security, intelligence and law enforcement officials. Our investigation teams are constituted of experienced and dynamic professional who can strategize, survey, investigate and can take such investigations to logical conclusion by ensuring police raids as and when required by the client

The Brand Protection Associates is managed and advised by well known security, intelligence professionals and law enforcement officials as below-

  • JOGINDER SINGH, Director CBI (Retd) – ADVISOR
    Mr.Joginder Singh held many prestigious assignments in his long innings as Indian Police cadre Officer. As Director CBI – he has handled many important delicate and difficult assignments.
     

  • C.PAL SINGH, Inspector General of Police (Retd), Punjab
    He specializes in the field of Intelligence, Investigation, Security, Brand Protection and Intellectual Property Rights
     

  • S.N.SHARMA, DIG (Retd.), Intelligence Bureau
    He has been conducting complex corporate investigations, handling under cover jobs, surveillance operations, profile checks, and trade mark infringement cases.
     

  • PAWANJIT AHLUWALIA, Managing Director PREMIER SHIELD
    Mr. Ahluwalia is the Managing Director of the Premier Shield. Our group has strategic alliance with The Steele Foundation – Asia, based in San Francisco, USA. Mr. Ahluwalia coordinates both protection and investigation projects throughout the Asia.
     

  

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