IPR

Protection, and enforcement require a global solution. ICIB provide both, the resources and the all-India reach to implement a program of strategic and tactical responses to IP issues, wherever they occur.

SPECIALLY DESIGNED IPR SOLUTIONS AND SERVICES

ICIB's total commitment to the cause is translated into a host of activities which can be conducted on behalf of the client and can provide thorough insights and IPR investigative expertise in matters relating to :

• Grey market evaluation - To compile and precisely analyse relevant data about counterfeiting and fraud from grey market situations.
• Multi-jurisdictional raid actions - Simultaneous raid actions and seizures across jurisdictions are conducted, to shut down counterfeit production lines and distribution channels.
• Pretext Purchases - ICIB devise and implement pretext purchases and sting operations against counterfeiters and associated companies.
• Permanent Monitoring - ICIB place your trademarks and brands on a 'watch-list' and alert you to sightings of suspected counterfeit or grey market product.
• Liaison with existing clients - We workwith clients to build an alliance of companies with similar products and intellectual property problems, in order to organise coordinated allied raids.
• Litigation support - We provide intelligence support for administrative sanctions, civil lawsuits and private criminal prosecutions against counterfeiters.
• Tactical Publicity & Lobbying Campaigns - We assist in orchestrating public relations and publicity campaigns or events, to spotlight major infringements, significant arrests, and penalties suffered by infringers. The aim is to generate maximum pressure on authorities in the infringing country.
• Strategic Publicity Campaigns - ICIB collaborates with clients to gain domestic publicity for the intellectual property war. We assist in organizing media campaigns and events such as press conferences, prime interviews and seminars, to spotlight the issues. We stress health and safety risks of counterfeit goods. Our fact finders help to underline the scale of the problem and damage to domestic business, using anecdotal evidence, photographic material, health and safety examples.
• Advice on registration (Copyright, Trademark etc) - We review your corporate and product presence in the country and advise on registration requirements to ensure your IP is protected is protected under the local law.

Business Investigations

• Theft
• Fraud
• Business Crimes
• Labour Problems
• Business Intelligence

ICIB has been synonymous with unmatched quality in investigative services, offering insights and skills that have evolved in India as quickly as the need to protect your business from the latest methods of Fraud, Theft, Labour problems, Crime, etc...

What's hot is business in India today ? Crime, Theft, Labour problems, Fraud could be quoted. ICIB is an All-India organization with insights into local business and with resources everywhere in India. ICIB can help whether your problem involves unwitting involvement in unlawful payments or theft of your trade secrets and intellectual property, embezzlement, or other kinds of threats facing modern business, ICIB consltants can help. We can help you keep control of your rightful property.

Insights and Expertise:

ICIB professionals provide insights and investigative expertise in matters relating to:

Preventing and detecting business and financial fraud, commercial and distribution fraud, whether it has actually occurred or merely suspected. Protecting trade secrets and investigating business crime, employee harassment, corporate crimes, etc. We work closely and confidentially with management and legal counsel to unravel complicated factual issues. Detailed analyses of other key areas, including human resources, labour problems, their causes etc.

Business Intelligence

• Due Diligence
• Employee verification
• New Market Entry & Competitive Intelligence
• Supplier & Vendor Integrity
• Strategic Publicity Campaigns
• Shadowing / Tailing
• Employees Verification
• Financial Capabilities
• Personal Investigation

What you don't know can hurt you.

What you don't know about your competitors, potential business partners, disgruntled ex-employees can cause major damage to your business. But what can you do about it?...

ICIB business intelligence services are strategic instruments to help you better manage your organization. These services are backed by our far-reaching network of investigative and consulting professionals, an in-depth knowledge of the strength and short comings of technology, and our intrinsic knowledge of business strategies and execution. By analyzing, interpreting and explaining the intelligence, we can provide actionable steps that you can take to strengthen and protect your business.

Insights and Expertise:

ICIB focuses on Due Diligence wherein lawyers, accountants and other professionals assess whether the terms of the proposed deal are justified and whether transaction makes sense for future. Employee Verification - It is the people inside the organizations, privy to sensitive information, who pose the greatest risk. A thorough check of employees asking not just where and when a potential employee left his previous employment, but under what circumstances. New Market Entry Evaluation, to provide the pros and cons of entering a new geopraphic area or market. ICIB can help you identify market threats, anticipate competitor initiatives, understand their vulnerabilities and gain advantage in competitive bids. Competitive Intelligence to uncover legitimate information about competitors and device proactive and reative market responses.

Supplier and Vendor Integrity whether it is threatened. If employees seek to enrich themselves by taking gratuities from vendors, if they are getting commissions on every item that goes out of the factory etc. Eventually, according to ICIB, this sort of thing hurts your bottom line. Pre-transaction Intelligence, wherein we use our unique expertise to uncover any hidden issues about an acquisition. This gives a better idea to the company of exactly what kind of relationship you are exerting. From shadowing to tailing, from strategic publicity campaigns to financial capabilities of competitors, we can help you maintain control of your rightful property as well as assess losses and recover damages wherever possible.

Other Services

ICIB business extends to the full range of risk mitigation services including:

• Asset Searching & Analysis
• Business Control Studies
• Business Intelligence
• Business Monitoring
• Computer-Evidence Recovery
• Corporate Compliance
• Corporate Investigations
• Due Diligence
• Employee Disputes
• Employee Integrity Program
• Environmental Investigations
• Forensic Audits
• Financial Fraud Investigations
• High-Technology Security
• Intellectual Property Investigations
• Litigation Support
• Vendor Integrity Program
• Witness Assessment