Podcast: fighting counterfeits in Latin America and Caribbean

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Podcast: fighting counterfeits in Latin America and Caribbean

From left: Virginia Cervieri at Cervieri Monsuárez (Uruguay), André Oliveira at Daniel Law (Brazil) and Mikhail Jackson at Livingston Alexander & Levy (Jamaica)

Virginia Cervieri (Uruguay), André Oliveira (Brazil) and Mikhail Jackson (Jamaica) reveal their strategies for budget management, destruction and e-commerce




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In Managing IP’s first LATAM and Caribbean podcast, Americas editor Patrick Wingrove speaks to Virginia Cervieri, co-founder at Cervieri Monsuárez in Uruguay, André Oliveira, partner at Daniel Law in Brazil, and Mikhail Jackson, partner at Livingston Alexander & Levy in Jamaica, about anti-counterfeiting.

Here, Cervieri, Oliveira and Jackson delve into anti-counterfeiting tactics and challenges surrounding budget management, destruction of fake products and e-commerce in their respective jurisdictions, and how those affect the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean.

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