IP Infringement Investigations
Your Intellectual property (IP) rights are the legal rights of ownership awarded by law to individuals or organizations
over creative works such as inventions, literary and artistic works, symbols, names, images, and designs used in
commerce. They give the creator the right to prevent others from making unauthorized use of these properties.
The first major step in ascertaining the validity, scope and level of damage of suspected infringement of your
Intellectual Property Rights, Copyright, Patent and Trademark of ideas, businesses and brands is a thorough
investigation process.
Our investigative activities help to identify the sources of Counterfeiting, the players & actors involved in the act,
their distribution and sales network, the hot spots in the markets and any other necessary information required to
expose the criminals, halt the crime and protect the brand. We do this both online and in the field.
We handle from simple to complex investigations ranging from simple product counterfeiting to pass offs, product
adulterations to full scale market evaluation.
We cover all locations in Nigeria and West Africa, East & Southern Africa as may be required by the brief and our
experience covers industries that have issues with counterfeiters or infringers including FMCGs, Pharmaceuticals,
Alcoholic Beverages, Software, Electronic & Electric Goods and Automotive.
Infringement investigative activities include:
Investigation of Counterfeiting cases covering identification of hot spots, isolation of key targets and analysis of
the entire supply chain,
Product Sample test purchases,
Generation of leads on Infringement cases,
Market Intelligence gathering,
Mystery Shopping,
Evidence collection in form of photos and videos and evidential purchases of faked products,
Trademarks, Copyright, Patent & design infringement investigations and
Parallel trade & Grey market investigations.
Competitive Intelligence Investigation
This investigation helps businesses to gain insights into what their core current and potential competitors are up to,
including but not limited to their Strategy, marketing activities, internal capabilities, intentions and future plans.
The output of this investigation helps businesses to strategize better and mitigate unpleasant surprises from their
competitors in the marketplace.
In this exercise, we probe and analyse the marketing activities of the competitors based upon the positions in the
market and associated market strategy; analyze competitors’ current and future resources and competencies and assess
their performances and key factors underlying their success and failure points, amongst others.
The scope of work depends entirely on the requirement of the client’s brief.
Fraud Investigation
We offer Fraud investigation services which helps organizations that have suffered fraud to ascertain the personalities
involved, their characteristics, their methods & processes, the tools used and identify patterns and trends of the crime
in the system.
Our investigation makes the job of law enforcement easier and equips the business with requisite knowledge to mitigate
against future occurrences proactively.
If required, we can assess the effectiveness of the company’s fraud solutions and give guidance on methods, techniques
and proffer solutions to achieve effective fraud control and prevention for better results.
