Imitation Nation

Sven and Shabbir discuss the biggest stories in counterfeits for the last two weeks. Walmart.com "Birkin Bag" controversy Yahoo! News Columbia Journal for Law and the Arts The U.S. Trade Representative's Notorious Markets Report See the press release and the full report. Xiaofei "Sophie" Chen arrest and prosecution PSM copy of the criminal complaint Sven and Shabbir make their predictions for big developments in counterfeiting and counterfeit prosecutions for 2025

This week, Shabbir Safdar and Sven Bergmann cover the arrest of a Houston, Texas woman accused of posing as a medical professional and injecting fake lip fillers, a woman in Medina, Tennessee busted selling research-only compounds as weight loss injections, and an update on the lawsuit filed by grieving families against Snapchat. Listen now.

This week, Shabbir Safdar and Sven Bergmann cover an $18 million dollar counterfeit Gibson guitar seizure in Long Beach, the resolution of a longstanding counterfeit HIV drug case, counterfeit bourbon, and a live  DSCSA demo that happened at the American Society for Pharmacy Law conference. Listen now.