AGMA in the News
TechnoChops:
IP rights protection in developing markets: An exclusive interview with AGMA
EBN:
Digital Authentication Fights Counterfeiting
EBN NEWS:
Electronics Counterfeiters Capitalize on Component Shortages
EBN:
Component Shortages Exacerbate Counterfeit Worries
CRN:
Vendors Urged to Clamp Down on Partner Fraud
ABC 7 News Video:
Warning About Online Gray Market Sales
IP Frontline:
IT Business Edge:
"China Remains Top Source of Counterfeit Tech Goods, Industry Group Says"
PC World: “Identity Theft Goes Corporate”
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/145164/identity_theft_goes_corporate.html
InformationWeek: “Operation 'Cisco Raider' Nets $76 Million In Fake Gear”
http://www.informationweek.com/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206901053&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News
ChannelWeb/CRN: “Report: Warranty, Services Abuse Costs Vendors Billions Each Year”
Processor: “Avoid an Equipment Fake-Out”
http://www.processor.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles/P3121/10ap21/10ap21/10ap21.asp&guid
Channel Insider: “American Power Conversion Joins AGMA”
http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/News/American-Power-Conversion-joins-AGMA-667009/
BusinessWeek: “HP Gets Tough on Ink Counterfeiters”
ChannelPro: “Counterfeiting: Trust but Verify”
http://www.channelpronetwork.com/article/Counterfeiting-Trust-but-Verify
Computer World UK: “Keep Counterfeit Products Out of Your IT Shop”
http://www.computerworlduk.com/how-to/networking/220/keep-counterfeit-products-out-of-your-it-shop/
The Wall Street Journal: “Tough Times for Independent IT Dealers”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703376504575492263117060630.html
The VAR Guy: “Deloitte & Touche, AGMA Battle Gray Market Technology Services”
http://www.thevarguy.com/2010/06/18/deloitte-touche-agma-battle-gray-market-technology-services/
The Seattle Times: “Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case About Costco Selling Omega Watches at Discount”
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2011649088_costco20.html
BusinessWeek: “Debunking Common Myths About Counterfeits”
BusinessWeek: “Fighting a Flood of Counterfeit tech Products”
Politico: “Study: Fake Military Parts on the Rise”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/32997.html
ChannelNomics: “Reports: Channel Incentive Programs Fall Short”
http://channelnomics.com/2011/06/30/reports-channel-incentive-programs-fall-short/
CRN: "Study: Channel Program Abuse Costs Vendors $1.4 Billion in Profit"
FedTech: “How to Avoid Counterfeit and Gray Market Products”
http://www.fedtechmagazine.com/article/2011/05/how-avoid-counterfeit-and-gray-market-products
State Tech Magazine: “Ferreting Out Fakes”
http://www.statetechmagazine.com/article/2011/04/ferreting-out-fakes
WIRED: “China Stalls IP Reform at Its Own Peril”
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/01/dyson-china-ip-reform/
CRN: “Channel Abuse Expanding into Digital IP”
http://www.crn.com/news/channel-programs/232602903/agma-channel-abuse-expanding-into-digital-ip.htm
Our Mission
AGMA’s primary focus is on industry and public education, sharing and developing best practices to effectively hinder threats to intellectual property and render these activities more difficult, undesirable and unprofitable. AGMA’s role is to present members and the industry with strategic ideas for addressing key IP protection issues, and to introduce better controls or processes in mitigating threats to IP.
Membership in AGMA provides access to important programs, strategies and tools for combating gray marketing and counterfeiting of branded products, service and warranty fraud and protection of IP in a digital format.