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ABOUT BRAND SENTINEL
Brand Sentinel is part of the Global Intelligence Group (GIGS). GIGS is a supply chain security specialist with over fifteen years experience in the media and marketing industries. The business has three UK based offices assisted by a network of retained consultants, GIGS operate in Central and South America, South East Asia, Australasia and extensively across Europe.
First and foremost Brand Sentinel consultants are content protection experts. This means we understand the issues and problems you face. We are experienced and have a proven track record in delivering brand protection strategies and providing robust and pro-active responses to on-line intellectual property infringement.
The company continues to embrace advancements in technology, what makes us unique is we direct the technology where most needed, attacking the route causes of loss, recovering the situation and preventing reoccurrence.
Who Uses Brand Sentinel Services
Our clients include:
- Leading IP law firms who have responsibility for brand protection, registration of trade marks and enforcement of copyright.
- Media companies representing music, film and publishing who are direct owners of protected intellectual property.
- Merchandisers who operate under licence of content owners
- Recognised Brand owners from a wide variety if industries including cosmetics, fashion and the motor trade.
- Sporting retailers who operate under recognised and protected brands and retail official merchandise.
CONTACT US AT WWW.BRANDSENTINEL.CO.UK
 
Trade Mark and Rights Holders Against Piracy (T.R.A.P) was founded in 2003 as a non profit making organisation and was formed to protect the rights of member companies, particularly in relation to the illegal sale of counterfeit product. The organisation has initially been formed for the protection of the music merchandising industry, although interest in joining has been expressed by other merchandise sectors, including toy manufacturers, sports/leisure merchandisers and high street retailers. The founder members of TRAP are an alliance of the major music merchandise companies, responsible for approximately eighty-five percent of the legitimate merchandise business in the UK.
The organisation aims to identify infringing activities and the individual and/or companies behind such activities, obtain significant levels of evidence of those activities and then enforce criminal and civil remedies against them using trade marks, design right, copyright and trade description legislation. The merchandising profession held an industry wide seminar in November 2002 at which the problems were identified, loss/damage quantified and legal solutions provided as to how an effective and coordinated approach could be taken to the infringement problem. The solution was to form a rights body to act as a representative trade association on behalf of the business. Accordingly, TRAP was formed.
TRAP works closely in partnership with enforcement agencies, authorities, trade associations and other anti-counterfeit organisation on matters such as education, prevention and enforcement as well as seeking to provide information and education to concert venues, retail stores and the general public.
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