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Leading Brands Slash Counterfeit Activity by 50%, and Recover Substantial Lost Profits
Stop the Source: Corsearch Revenue Recovery 360 Reclaims Over $100 Million in Lost Revenues for Brand Owners, Delivering Proven ROI and Deterring Counterfeit Sellers
NEW YORK – November 4, 2025 – An explosion in counterfeit sales is putting consumers at risk, unfairly undermining the sales and profits of brands around the globe, and challenging consumers’ faith in online marketplaces1. Brand owners are increasingly turning to Trademark and Brand Protection expert Corsearch to combat this pervasive and growing threat. Corsearch’s innovative, tech-enabled Revenue Recovery 360 solution effectively reduces counterfeit activity and reclaims lost profits, having already helped brands shut down over 115,000 counterfeit marketplace sellers and recoup more than $100 million in lost revenues.2
Increasingly, leading brands are recognizing the potential to work with enriched data from online brand protection and use this data to take direct action against counterfeit sellers who persist in infringement. Corsearch Revenue Recovery 360 works alongside Brand Protection technology and offers brands a highly effective and efficient way to fight the threat by imposing financial and legal penalties on counterfeiters.
Revenue recovery legal cases typically shut down and penalize hundreds of counterfeit marketplace sellers in a single action. Brand owners find that this powerful approach not only enables a massive reduction in counterfeit activity, but also drives an immediate lift in a brand’s marketplace sales, reclaims profits previously lost and delivers a high return on investment. The recovered revenues alone average over $350,000 from a single case, sufficient to enable brands to invest further in comprehensive and robust brand and consumer protection strategies. For smaller ecommerce focused brands, Corsearch Revenue Recovery 360 can mean the difference between extinction and survival; for large global brands, these recoveries can help transform legal departments from pure cost centers to revenue generators.
Quad Lock stops counterfeit mobile phone holders
Corsearch offers brand owners an expert, no-cost and low-risk way to successfully navigate the legal landscape to achieve compelling results. One company that partnered with Corsearch to gain meaningful financial restitution and a sustained reduction in infringing activity is Quad Lock, the successful brand behind mobile mounting solutions for phones.
Quad Lock rose rapidly from a Kickstarter campaign to a $200 million company, but soon faced extensive counterfeits that overwhelmed consumers and threatened its reputation, revenues and customer trust.
Willem du Preez, Quad Lock’s Head of IP explains, “Corsearch offered multiple revenue recovery opportunities with almost no risk to us. The Revenue Recovery 360 team went through the process of identifying potential defendants, making purchases and compiling a definitive list of infringing sellers. This process of identifying multiple defendants with Corsearch was less than the cost of analyzing one potential defendant through traditional channels”.
“The impact has been massive. Quad Lock sells directly to customers through the Amazon portal as an e-marketplace. The value of having a clean marketplace, especially in the United States, is even greater for us than the monetary gain from revenue recovery.”
Karl Florida, SVP, Revenue Recovery 360 at Corsearch says, “Our Revenue Recovery 360 solution has proven to be an extremely powerful tool for brands combating the counterfeit threat, because it imposes financial penalties on counterfeiters and restores lost profits to brand owners. By reducing and deterring counterfeit activity, and thereby cleaning up marketplaces on a lasting basis, our solution builds back a brand’s market position and helps restore consumer trust.”
“For brand owners aiming to more effectively fight the counterfeit threat with strategies that deliver high impact and high ROI, integrating revenue recovery into enforcement strategies isn’t just a legal tactic, it’s a business imperative that leading brands are increasingly adopting. All brands need to protect their IP and their revenue, and together combat the counterfeit threat to restore consumer trust and safeguard the integrity of commerce for all involved.”
Read the full Quad Lock case study here ‘The impact of revenue recovery on Quad Lock’s brand protection‘
1 https://www.oecd.org/en/about/news/press-releases/2025/05/global-trade-in-fake-goods-reached-USD-467-billion-posing-risks-to-consumer-safety-and-compromising-intellectual-property.html
2 Over a seven-year period from 1/1/2017 to 10/31/2025.
