Product Counterfeiting in the United States

From 2002-2015, 8.6 million counterfeit products worth $159 million were seized in the United States.

Seized counterfeit products –

• 64% pharmaceuticals
• 31% electronics
• 5% foods

Product counterfeiting offenders –

• 85% male
• 56% white
• 67% incarcerated
• Average 39 years of age

Product counterfeiting victims –

• 63% are trademark owners
• 56% from the electronics industry
• 37% are individual consumer victims

Source: Brandon A. Sullivan, “Systematic Analysis of Products Counterfeiting Schemes, Offenders, and Victims in the United States,” Final report to the National Institute of Justice, grant number 2016-R2-CX-0052, October 2019, NCJ 253933, https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/253933.pdf