Service Overview
Counterfeiting is a global industry worth more than USD 460 billion, and MENA and South Asia sit at the heart of it. These regions host fast-growing consumer markets, world-class logistics hubs, extensive free-zone networks, and increasingly active online marketplaces. The result: complex, fast-moving counterfeit supply chains that reach every sector, from luxury and FMCG to pharmaceuticals, automotive, electronics, and industrial goods.
For rights holders, the threat is constant and evolving. Fake products undermine brand equity, endanger consumers, and drain legitimate revenue. They also move through layered networks—small traders, warehouse operators, cross-border distributors, parallel importers, and digital sellers—requiring fast, coordinated, evidence-driven enforcement.
UTMPS is built for exactly this landscape. We protect global brands with a model that combines on-the-ground intelligence, deep regulatory relationships, and precise legal execution across 20+ jurisdictions.
How We Help
Across MENA and South Asia, our teams work directly with customs, police, IP offices, and regulatory authorities, giving rights holders a single coordinated enforcement engine across all key markets. We pair field enforcement with sophisticated monitoring tools that scan online marketplaces and social platforms for counterfeit activity.
Whether you’re fighting street-level retail, industrial manufacturing, online sellers, or cross-border distribution routes, we bring structure, insight, and impact to every action.
Our Capabilities
We help clients:
- Investigate counterfeit production, distribution channels & online activity
- Conduct test purchases, market sweeps & undercover evidence gathering
- Prepare authority-ready evidence packs, authentication reports & declarations
- Record rights with customs and regulatory agencies for proactive border actions
- Coordinate raids, seizures & shop-floor inspections with enforcement authorities
- Initiate administrative, civil & criminal actions against infringers
- Pursue online takedowns, domain disputes & platform enforcement
- Train customs and enforcement bodies on product identification
- Run multi-country brand protection programs with consistent reporting
How We Work
Intelligence-led approach
We combine field investigations, digital monitoring, test buys, and local intelligence networks to identify the full scope of infringing activity—not just the point of sale.
Operational coordination with authorities
Our long-standing working relationships with customs, police, IP offices, and regulatory bodies allow us to move quickly and conduct well-prepared, high-impact actions.
Sector-specific expertise
Our anti-counterfeiting work spans luxury, FMCG, pharmaceuticals, tobacco, automotive, technology hardware, industrial machinery, semiconductors, and apparel—each requiring different proof, authentication methods, and enforcement pathways.
End-to-end case management
We secure evidence, conduct raids, oversee seizures, initiate proceedings, and manage follow-on actions to ensure infringers are removed from the market—not just disrupted temporarily.
Multi-jurisdictional capability
Centralised planning with in-country execution across 16 jurisdictions ensures consistent evidence standards, coordinated timelines, and unified reporting for global rights holders.
Representative Matters
- Delivered trademark prosecution and customs-enforcement actions in the UAE and Oman for a British luxury brand.
- Developed a regional brand-protection strategy—covering investigations, takedowns, customs recordals, raids, and customs-training programs for a Japanese engineering and manufacturing conglomerate.
- Advised on portfolio management and IP enforcement across key MENA markets for Fortune 500 technology companies.
- Provided brand-protection and anti-counterfeiting services across the MENA region for a top-three global tobacco company.
- Stopped the production and distribution of counterfeit goods in the GCC through coordinated enforcement actions for leading FMCG companies and global brand owners.
- Executed anti-counterfeiting operations in the UAE and broader MENA region for the world’s leading semiconductor chip manufacturer.
- Managed a portfolio of more than 2,000 trademarks and designs and executed enforcement actions across complex industrial supply chains for a global oil and gas manufacturer.
- Conducted origin and distribution-channel investigations, seizures, raids, and legal proceedings for a major British apparel, footwear, and home-goods retailer.
- Provided trademark protection and enforcement across Egypt and broader MENA markets for several global pharmaceutical companies.
Service Overview
Counterfeiting is a global industry worth more than USD 460 billion, and MENA and South Asia sit at the heart of it. These regions host fast-growing consumer markets, world-class logistics hubs, extensive free-zone networks, and increasingly active online marketplaces. The result: complex, fast-moving counterfeit supply chains that reach every sector, from luxury and FMCG to pharmaceuticals, automotive, electronics, and industrial goods.
For rights holders, the threat is constant and evolving. Fake products undermine brand equity, endanger consumers, and drain legitimate revenue. They also move through layered networks—small traders, warehouse operators, cross-border distributors, parallel importers, and digital sellers—requiring fast, coordinated, evidence-driven enforcement.
UTMPS is built for exactly this landscape. We protect global brands with a model that combines on-the-ground intelligence, deep regulatory relationships, and precise legal execution across 20+ jurisdictions.
How We Help
Across MENA and South Asia, our teams work directly with customs, police, IP offices, and regulatory authorities, giving rights holders a single coordinated enforcement engine across all key markets. We pair field enforcement with sophisticated monitoring tools that scan online marketplaces and social platforms for counterfeit activity.
Whether you’re fighting street-level retail, industrial manufacturing, online sellers, or cross-border distribution routes, we bring structure, insight, and impact to every action.
Our Capabilities
We help clients:
- Investigate counterfeit production, distribution channels & online activity
- Conduct test purchases, market sweeps & undercover evidence gathering
- Prepare authority-ready evidence packs, authentication reports & declarations
- Record rights with customs and regulatory agencies for proactive border actions
- Coordinate raids, seizures & shop-floor inspections with enforcement authorities
- Initiate administrative, civil & criminal actions against infringers
- Pursue online takedowns, domain disputes & platform enforcement
- Train customs and enforcement bodies on product identification
- Run multi-country brand protection programs with consistent reporting
How We Work
Intelligence-led approach
We combine field investigations, digital monitoring, test buys, and local intelligence networks to identify the full scope of infringing activity—not just the point of sale.
Operational coordination with authorities
Our long-standing working relationships with customs, police, IP offices, and regulatory bodies allow us to move quickly and conduct well-prepared, high-impact actions.
Sector-specific expertise
Our anti-counterfeiting work spans luxury, FMCG, pharmaceuticals, tobacco, automotive, technology hardware, industrial machinery, semiconductors, and apparel—each requiring different proof, authentication methods, and enforcement pathways.
End-to-end case management
We secure evidence, conduct raids, oversee seizures, initiate proceedings, and manage follow-on actions to ensure infringers are removed from the market—not just disrupted temporarily.
Multi-jurisdictional capability
Centralised planning with in-country execution across 16 jurisdictions ensures consistent evidence standards, coordinated timelines, and unified reporting for global rights holders.
Representative Matters
- Delivered trademark prosecution and customs-enforcement actions in the UAE and Oman for a British luxury brand.
- Developed a regional brand-protection strategy—covering investigations, takedowns, customs recordals, raids, and customs-training programs for a Japanese engineering and manufacturing conglomerate.
- Advised on portfolio management and IP enforcement across key MENA markets for Fortune 500 technology companies.
- Provided brand-protection and anti-counterfeiting services across the MENA region for a top-three global tobacco company.
- Stopped the production and distribution of counterfeit goods in the GCC through coordinated enforcement actions for leading FMCG companies and global brand owners.
- Executed anti-counterfeiting operations in the UAE and broader MENA region for the world’s leading semiconductor chip manufacturer.
- Managed a portfolio of more than 2,000 trademarks and designs and executed enforcement actions across complex industrial supply chains for a global oil and gas manufacturer.
- Conducted origin and distribution-channel investigations, seizures, raids, and legal proceedings for a major British apparel, footwear, and home-goods retailer.
- Provided trademark protection and enforcement across Egypt and broader MENA markets for several global pharmaceutical companies.
