{"id":50698,"date":"2023-06-19T06:55:56","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T04:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wika.com\/en\/?p=50698"},"modified":"2023-06-19T06:55:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T04:55:56","slug":"unscrupulous-faking-the-website-of-wika-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wika.com\/en\/wika-insight\/unscrupulous-faking-the-website-of-wika-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Unscrupulous: Faking the website of WIKA China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Trademark pirates won&#8217;t even stop at faking a website in order to distribute counterfeit products via the internet. WIKA has now also been affected by such criminality \u2013 under the domain www.wika-wika.cn, a company from Shanghai faked the homepage of WIKA China.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Faking the website was publicly denounced with Plagiarius disgraceful award<\/h2>\n<p>The company&#8217;s Trademarks &amp; Patents department, however, did not hesitate and made sure that this online trap disappeared. In addition, the internationally recognised Aktion Plagiarius awarded the case one of its \u201cname and shame\u201d awards and thus shone a spotlight on the company responsible.<\/p>\n<p>Counterfeiting a product is bold. \u201cBut stealing the entire identity of a well-known manufacturer, including photos, texts and history, is unscrupulous!\u201d, WIKA&#8217;s trademark protection team concluded. Faking the website of WIKA China involves a number of serious offences \u2013 infringement of trademark and copyright law, deliberate deception of website users and damage to WIKA&#8217;s good reputation, which is based on the high quality of WIKA products. That is why the Trademarks &amp; Patents department uses all legal means to take resolute action against trademark piracy of any kind.<\/p>\n\n      <div class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width:846px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.wika.com\/en\/files\/2023\/06\/textbild_faked-webseite-838x283.jpg\" alt=\"Fake websites are not obvious at first glance.\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original on the left, the fake on the right: untrained viewers can easily fall for a fake website.<\/p><\/div>\n    \n<h2>\nMore and more counterfeits are sold online<\/h2>\n<p>The appearance of www.wika-wika.cn with the perfidious note \u2019Copyright: WIKA China Website\u2019 underlines a development that poses new challenges for trademark protection. According to WIKA&#8217;s counterfeiting experts, more counterfeit products are now circulating via e-commerce than \u201cover the counter\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>WIKA has taken immediate steps to react to this change. For years now, the Trademarks &amp; Patents department has been scanning all commonly used sales platforms such as Alibaba and Made-in-China.com for counterfeit versions of WIKA instruments. It currently deletes 1,400 offers from these portals every year. In the past, there used to be more than twice as many, and in 2018 there were over 4,000 \u2013 clearly, the clamp-down on the work of counterfeiters on the web is having an impact.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong><br \/>\nWould you like to find out more about WIKA? Then visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wika.com\/en-en\/startpage.WIKA\" rel=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>. You can find an introduction to the Plagiarius \u201caward winners\u201d on the website of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plagiarius.com\/index.php?ID=62&amp;SETSPRACHE=2\" rel=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">Aktion Plagiarius<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also read our blogs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wika.com\/en\/wika-insight\/gotcha-counterfeit-devices-in-malaysia\/\">Gotcha! Counterfeit devices in Malaysia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trademark pirates won&#8217;t even stop at faking a website in order to distribute counterfeit products via the internet. WIKA has now also been affected by such criminality \u2013 under the domain www.wika-wika.cn, a company from Shanghai faked the homepage of WIKA China. Faking the website was publicly denounced with Plagiarius disgraceful award The company&#8217;s Trademarks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":50727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[215],"tags":[504,288],"class_list":["post-50698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wika-insight","tag-measuring-instruments","tag-subsidiary"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Unscrupulous: Faking the website of WIKA China - WIKA blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A company from Shanghai tried to sell counterfeits online by faking the website of WIKA China. 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