Since 2007 TM EYE has been at the forefront of the fight against counterfeiting. Assisting Brand Owners in this battle over the years we have represented many well-known clients, including manufacturers of brand named, high class, luxury goods across a range of products such as designer label clothing, handbags, perfumes and watches. In addition, TM EYE has had great success in dismantling and prosecuting criminal networks involved in counterfeiting pharmaceuticals and tobacco products. TM EYE is heavily engaged with the UK National Markets Committee as part of the ‘Real Deal’ campaign, alongside Trading Standards, Police and other anti-counterfeiting organisations managing the strategic response to IP crime. TM EYE’s Director, David McElvey, was recently appointed the Chairman of the Enforcement sub-committee of the National Markets Group.
Such is our success that TM EYE now has a memorandum of understanding with the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) to gather and share intelligence when tackling counterfeiters across the UK as well as a similar arrangement with the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) Criminal Record Office, to obtain previous convictions/cautions in support of private prosecutions.
We are one of the few organisations in the United Kingdom that engage in pro-active actions against criminal networks involved in this form of crime. The TM EYE team are all seasoned ex-Police detectives and Trading Standards officers, having served in units fighting organised crime. They are experts in surveillance, case preparation, disclosure and providing testimony. TM EYE’s success is built on applying the same tactics used when combatting organised crime into the area of Intellectual Property theft, thus enabling us to ‘catch and convict’ those involved. Our main aim is to gather evidence against those involved in such criminality and then, along with our partners in Trading Standards, the Police and other Law Enforcement agencies, seek to support criminal prosecutions.