• Dr. RoopaTraisa

You must have encountered counterfeit products (or duplicate products) in your daily life. These counterfeits products are basically non-genuine or duplicate copies of mostly the top branded companies in the market PUMA, STARBUCKS COFFEE, and NIKE are some branded companies to cite. In this 21st centuries counterfeiting is regarded as crime of the century. Counterfeiting is considered as trademark violation along with three other types i.e. infringement, dilution and cybersquatting. Cybersquatting is related to the domain name and thus is not covered in this paper, however, infringement and dilution have some similarity with counterfeits and thus is briefly covered in this review paper. The Trademark Act, 1999 which provides protection to the trademark owner against the infringer also provides the protection against the counterfeits. Further, the researchers in this paper have discussed the nature and brief history of the trademark, difference between infringement and counterfeits, meaning and nature of the counterfeits and legal remedy available to the trademark owner against the counterfeiter.

counterfeiting, duplicate, infringement, remedy, and trademark.

"Counterfeiting of Trademarks", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no.178-183, February-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIREV06029.pdf

"Counterfeiting of Trademarks", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no. pp178-183, February-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIREV06029.pdf