Counterfeiting is big business. Globally, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and European Union( EU)’s Intellectual Property Office estimate that counterfeit goods ...

Ash-har Quraishi is a consumer correspondent based in Chicago. He is an Emmy Award-winning journalist with more than 25 years of local, national, international and investigative reporting experience.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized more than 1,000 counterfeit point of sale machines, commonly referred to as registers, at the Canadian border last month. Officers “targeted” three ...

Researchers, led by New York University, have developed a new method based on machine-learning algorithms to distinguish between genuine and counterfeit versions of the same product. Such technology ...

Many fashionistas may be confident they can tell the difference between a real Louis Vuitton purse and a fake one, but in reality, it is not always so simple. The differences often require a close ...

(BCN) — Police in Santa Rosa on Tuesday seized a suspected pill-pressing machine from a man accused of distributing large quantities of counterfeit pills. Santa Rosa investigators began looking into a ...

Counterfeit parts are prevalent in military and aerospace applications, where design engineers often have an incentive to specify mature components which have performed well in the past. If the ...

Honest mistakes spec'ing bearings happen occasionally and are generally remedied by the responsible party. However, some unscrupulous distributors and dealers blatantly offer counterfeit-bearing ...

Researchers present a novel framework that uses image-mining techniques and machine learning algorithms to identify flaws in counterfeit coins. The researchers' framework uses fuzzy association rules ...