Investigation on counterfeited engine oil


Publish Date: 2009-6-18 14:52:28, views: 1865

Goble-Hunt investigation: As car owner, you cannot even imagine the engine oil used for your car is prepared and filled in such iron houses.




(Iron house for storing and filling international prestigious brand lubricants)




(Warehouse in iron house stores lubricants of various prestigious brands)



(Lubricants for cars of various brands are stacked on shelves)


Authorized by U.S. X brand lubricant, Goble-Hunt performed investigation in 2006 on their prestigious brand engine oil to protect their intellectual property rights.

After receiving authorization, Goble-Hunt carefully analyzed customer complaint for that brand and implemented investigation based on the key points of such complaints. Through investigation for more than 20 days, Goble-Hunt investigator found a delivery truck appearing in various selling outlets and this truck entered various selling outlets through backdoor. Through further investigation, our investigator found this truck went back to a remote iron house in Longgang District each time after unloading. Through monitoring on the iron house, our investigator found out the iron house delivered various types of engine oil every day. For further verification, our investigator pretended to be salesperson to approach the delivery truck driver. Guided by the driver, our investigator went into the iron house and found target products on the shelves. To his amazement, our investigator found lubricants of various brands stored from floor to ceiling in the 200m2 warehouse.

Our investigator bought some samples of the target product at a price 1/3 lower than market price and our client verified it as counterfeited product. After we completed investigation and evidence collection on the production venue of counterfeited products, the Legal Affairs Department of our client agreed to use legal proceedings to protect their intellectual property and consumers’ legitimate rights and benefits.