AGMA Announces Event Schedule for 2023

AGMA, the Alliance for Grey Market and Counterfeit Abatement, is an alliance of intellectual property (IP) rights holders, with combined annual revenues in excess of $425 billion, who recognise that IP protection is a fundamental element of innovation and economic growth.

AGMA claims its members are some of the most innovative technology companies in the world, investing millions of dollars in local economies and developing branded products trusted by billions of people.

The association has now released a full calendar of events ¹ that includes online events in April, June and October, as well as a spring conference (Singapore) in May and autumn conference (Paris) in November.

Building on the knowledge of its members, AGMA further develops IP protection concepts, educating industry, law and policy makers, as well as consumers in order to transform these concepts into best practices. These best practices can be used to combat four distinct threats to the high-tech industry: grey marketing, counterfeiting, service and warranty fraud, and unauthorised use or distribution of IP in a digital format (digital IP).

AGMA’s primary focus is on industry and public education, and 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.

Since its incorporation in 2001 by 3Com, Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Nortel, and Xerox, AGMA has participated in many industry conferences, raising awareness and educating the industry on the serious issues of grey market and counterfeit technology – and the impact on consumers and the high-tech industry as a whole. AGMA has submitted testimony for a congressional hearing on the economic impact of grey marketing and counterfeiting, and has steadily and continuously grown its membership base.

An example of AGMA's work is a white paper, written in collaboration with De La Rue and FiveBy, titled ‘Brand Protection Insights from Industry Leaders in Gray Market, Counterfeit and IP Fraud Mitigation’.

The white paper takes as its starting point that the rapid growth of e-commerce in the last few years has provided a large conduit for counterfeits, and warranty and financial fraud. At the confluence of all these changes are the issues of mitigating counterfeit, reducing channel grey market, and preventing various types of fraud.

Brand protection programmes, and the solutions designed to support them, have been impacted in ways that were never imagined, and manufacturers and software companies need to be prepared to address new threats.

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