High Quality Counterfeit Jeans Ring in California Stopped

abc7.com reports in text and with a video about a counterfeit Jeans ring busted in Orange County, California, USA. In the gated community of Coto de Caza 200 pairs of counterfeit jeans were yielded, that are believed to be made in China. The upmarket jeans labels included: 'True Religion' and '7 For All Mankind'.
With a layman's eye it was not possible to distinguish fake from genuine. So an expert was asked, who could determine the jeans were fake because of the lack of hidden threads.

This might be another example of the proposition that counterfeiters have climbed the learning curve of manufacturing and can produce products even better than the real thing.

Read the abc7.com article and see the video, here.

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Nokia-N95 With A Touch Screen, The Original Doesn't Have One

Counterfeiters are becoming Alpinists in climbing the learning curve of counterfeiting. CH of the excellent French language site Mobimania, reports about a Chinese clone of Nokia N95, called the Nokia-N95 (notice the slash between Nokia and N95). The format has changed from a slider to a candybar, it is not compatible with UMTS, then again it has a touch screen and stylo where the original has not.

Read CH's article in French here and the article of Just Another Mobile Phone Blog by Maximus in English here.

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Chinese Preemptive Counterfeiters Force Producers To Synchronous Market Introductions

Alex Zaharov-Reutt wrot a very interesting article for ITWire (H/T to Technology writer Mike Elgan of Raw Feed) about Chinese counterfeiters' preempting the market, before the originals are released in the Chinese market that will trick Chinese buyers into believing the original gadgets are fake.

Zaharov-Reutt links to two articles that give examples of these not so cheap, high quality counterfeit products: LG Electronics' Chocolate Phone and Sony's PlayStation Portable, Read the article in the English Chosun Ilbo here.

In an effort to neutralise the Chinese counterfeiters Samsung even offered the designers a job. The English Chosun Ilbo wrote:
"Samsung Electronics smoked out one such organization recently by tracking down the distribution channel on its own and offered their designers a job with the company. The organization had been able to decode circuit diagrams Samsung made. But the designers turned down the offer, saying they can make W100-200 million (US$1=W930) every time they succeed in producing a perfect fake, so there was no incentive to work for Samsung. "Due to the surge in imitation products, we keep new product design and functions highly confidential before release even within the company,” a Samsung executive said. "

So I think, for companies to avoid that these high quality counterfeiters preempt the market, it is key for them to introduce their products in their home market at the same moment as they enter the Chinese market.

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