Product and brand piracyNegative prize 'Plagiarius' launched in new round
The 'Plagiarius' campaign is holding its competition of the same name for the 42nd time. Companies, designers and inventors once again have the chance to submit their original products and alleged imitations and propose the plagiarist as the winner of the negative prize.
... on the company WIKA Alexander Wiegand from Klingenberg, Bavaria: In 2015, counterfeits of a WIKA pressure measuring instrument (left in the original) were confiscated from the Vietnamese company Buu Ky as part of a raid. In 2016, the "VIKA" counterfeits were found in a second raid, some of which only had the front part of the "W" scratched off and some of which had the "W" replaced with a "V". The counterfeits were manufactured in China by the company Ma Anshan Exact Instrument. Another industrial component ...