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Merit Entertainment help bust counterfeiters
For the past year, Merit Entertainment has been working with police, governments and courts around the globe, helping to crack down on intellectual property theft and piracy. Merit recently worked with Morris County Prosecutors Office in the investigation of Nisan Naveh, a 62 year-old New Jersey man. On Tuesday May 15th, police arrested Naveh for alleged trademark infringement, and the alleged selling of counterfeit gaming consoles and computer software from his home. The investigators determined that Naveh was selling counterfeit Megatouch Force software, one of Merit's long-running successful software platforms.
The police seized hundreds of hard drives, several complete copy kits, computers, records and many computer circuit boards. According to Merit Entertainment, the approximate value of the items seized was between $10,000 and $20,000.
"Merit will continue to protect its intellectual property rights worldwide" stated Bob Fay, Merit's director of government relations. In doing so, Merit Entertainment will continue to help crack down on intellectual property theft and piracy in the future, whilst maintaining a firm stance of support for authorized distributors. Bob Mills, Merit's Vice President of Sales North America maintains that "we are vigilant in this effort, and our customers and the entire industry benefit from the money we spend protecting the consumer from foreign, fraudulent, incomplete and unsupported software and game machines."
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