The Brand Enforcement Program Runs Your Anti-Counterfeiting Casework Every Month
The Brand Enforcement Program is a standing monthly investigation for a brand that already has a live counterfeit or diversion problem. It names the sellers, buys the goods, and builds the evidence file your counsel enforces from, month after month, in one place. A brand with one matter to work starts with our brand protection investigations; the program is built for the brand whose problem comes back every month.
The Brand Enforcement Program buys a fixed number of identifications and test buys every month
What you are buying is investigative volume, agreed in writing before the first month. A set number of sellers identified to a real person or company, a set number of purchases made under chain of custody, and the findings written up so your counsel can act on them. The numbers are set to your problem on the scoping call, and they do not move without your word.
Everything accumulates in one case file: sellers, identities, purchases, findings, notices and outcomes. The second month starts from everything the first month learned.
Program leadership sets the strategy and the Brand Enforcement Program does the casework
These are two different purchases and brands mix them up. Our Brand Protection Program Leadership engagement puts a fractional director over your whole brand protection function: vendors, budget, priorities and accountability for the outcome. It is leadership of a function you already have or are building.
The Brand Enforcement Program is the casework itself. It produces the identifications, the purchases, the sworn findings, the monthly evidence ledger and the quarterly source report. A brand can buy either one on its own. A brand whose internal director needs investigative output buys this one.
Every seller on the enforcement list carries the person behind it
Test buys and sworn findings are the enforcement program's working output
Test buys each month
Purchases by a licensed investigator through neutral accounts, photographed and sealed on receipt, with chain of custody logged from the seller to your counsel.
Findings written to be filed
Declarations by a named, licensed examiner, sworn where counsel needs it, with the exhibits attached and the reasoning stated.
Examination against your standard
Goods are examined against your own authentication guide, and lot codes are read and matched to your distribution records where diversion is in play.
Notices and referrals are the enforcement that actually removes a seller
Platform reports
Rights holder reports prepared in the format each marketplace accepts, with the evidence attached, ready for your team or counsel to submit.
Notice letters
Demand and cease letters drafted from the evidence for your counsel to send, addressed to a named party rather than a handle.
Customs referrals
Where imports are involved, a referral package for Customs and Border Protection built on the examined goods and the shipment record.
Law enforcement referrals
Where the conduct is criminal, a package assembled for federal or state referral and the coordination that follows.
The monthly evidence ledger is what makes the program auditable
At the end of each month you receive a ledger: every seller worked, every purchase made, every finding issued, every notice prepared and what happened to each one. It is the document that tells your board what the program did, and it is the document that shows a court you enforced your marks consistently rather than occasionally.
The quarterly source report follows the counterfeit back upstream
Removing sellers is maintenance. The quarterly source report is the part that changes the picture, because it takes the strongest threads from three months of purchases and identities and works them back toward the production, consolidation or distribution point feeding the whole cluster. Once the source is named, your counsel has a target worth the cost of litigation.
A program month delivers new identifications, purchases, findings and a ledger
Baseline
The full sweep, the first seller list with identities, and the first test buys, which set the picture everything afterward is measured against.
Work the list
New sellers identified, purchases made, findings issued, notices and reports prepared, and the ledger delivered.
Source report
The upstream investigation, delivered as a written report with named parties and a recommended route.
Program review
A standing call with you and your counsel to decide what gets pursued, what gets parked, and what changes next month.
Program terms, including the monthly volume of purchases and identifications, are set in writing before the first month.
An enforcement program is judged on what arrives each month
Is this different from brand protection software?
We already have a law firm. Does the enforcement program replace them?
What is in the monthly evidence ledger?
What does the quarterly source report actually deliver?
Does the program cover diversion as well as counterfeits?
How is the Brand Enforcement Program priced?
The enforcement program's output is signed by the examiner who produced it
Matt Aubin, CDFE, FBCI
Managing Partner, E3 Legacy Intel · Southern Recon Agency, LLC, Florida agency license A-1400197
Every month of the program is worked under a named, licensed examiner. Matt Aubin brings seventeen years in cybercrime and open source intelligence. He is a Certified Digital Forensics Examiner (CDFE), a Florida Board Certified Investigator (FBCI), and a Certified AI Agent Developer. He has investigated cases jointly with the FBI, the SEC, the U.S. Secret Service, and the U.S. Marshals.
His work has been featured on ABC News, Spectrum News, and The Daily Beast, and in a television pilot for Netflix and MAC Pictures as a cybercrime expert. He keynotes nationally and serves on the Board of Directors of the Florida Association of Licensed Investigators (FALI). The firm is nationwide, and the work is run from Florida. About Matt Aubin
Brand enforcement reaches the source, which is where a counterfeit cluster actually lives
Call (877) 732-6648 or use the contact form to arrange a confidential call. Scope and fee are quoted in writing after a confidential call.
Tell us what happened
A licensed examiner reads every inquiry. You get a written, flat fee quote before any work starts. Or call (877) 732-6648.
