{"id":2598,"date":"2022-12-05T21:32:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T21:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trademarkmanagement.com\/?p=2598"},"modified":"2022-12-05T21:34:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T21:34:57","slug":"officers-seize-more-than-400-counterfeit-super-bowl-rings-in-shipment-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trademarkmanagement.com\/?p=2598","title":{"rendered":"Officers seize more than 400 counterfeit Super Bowl rings in shipment from China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtap.com\/authors\/jordan-gartner\/\">Jordan Gartner<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Published:&nbsp;Nov. 30, 2022 at 5:09 PM EST<\/em>|<em>Updated:&nbsp;20 hours ago<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Gray News) &#8211; Officials say border protection officers seized a shipment containing hundreds of fraudulent Super Bowl rings earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/local-media-release\/st-louis-cbp-intercepts-422-counterfeit-nfl-championship-rings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">U.S. Customs and Border Protection<\/a>&nbsp;agency reports officers working at an express consignment operations hub in St. Louis seized the shipment on Nov. 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The shipment contained 422 Super Bowl championship rings bearing the image of the Lombardi Trophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCounterfeit jewelry continues to flood the e-commerce market, and these rings were focused on a select group of sports collectors and their fans,\u201d said Field Operations-Chicago Director LaFonda Sutton-Burke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the agency, an import specialist determined the rings were not authentic and bore an infringing trademark owned by NFL Properties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authorities said the shipment was heading to a residence in Jerseyville, Illinois, from China. If the items were genuine, they would have been worth $300,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur officers are well-trained to find counterfeit merchandise like these in support of CBP\u2019s mission of protecting the American public and the American economy,\u201d Sutton-Burke said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Border protection officials said jewelry was the third most popular counterfeited item in 2021, with officers seizing more than 375,000 items worth over $550 million at genuine value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whsv.com\/2022\/11\/30\/officers-seize-more-than-400-counterfeit-super-bowl-rings-shipment-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">URL: https:\/\/www.whsv.com\/2022\/11\/30\/officers-seize-more-than-400-counterfeit-super-bowl-rings-shipment-china\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By&nbsp;Jordan Gartner Published:&nbsp;Nov. 30, 2022 at 5:09 PM EST|Updated:&nbsp;20 hours ago (Gray News) &#8211; Officials<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-counterfeits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trademarkmanagement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trademarkmanagement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trademarkmanagement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trademarkmanagement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trademarkmanagement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trademarkmanagement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2602,"href":"https:\/\/trademarkmanagement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions\/2602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trademarkmanagement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trademarkmanagement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trademarkmanagement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}