ICE Releases Website Seizure Statistics in Fight Against Counterfeit Goods
An annual effort to stop websites from illegally selling counterfeit products again led to thousands of domain name seizures, ICE said (here). Along with law enforcement agencies across 27 countries, ICE's Homeland Security Investigations shut down about 15,000 websites that…
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sold counterfeit merchandise online, down from the 37,479 seized domain names last year, the agency said. The operation also led to the removal of 48,000 "erroneous" e-commerce links, ICE said. The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center, a U.S. interagency collaboration led by HSI, joined with Europol and Interpol for the operation, called In-Our-Sites VII. This was the seventh year for the anti-counterfeiting website operation.