CBP Seizes Counterfeit Apple, Samsung Phones

CBP officers at the San Juan air cargo facility recently seized a number counterfeit phones and cellphone accessories, including two phony versions of the latest iPhone, the agency said. The intellectual property infringing products, seized in late August, also included two Samsung Galaxy phones, and 319 iPhone cell phone panels, said CBP. “Counterfeiters have the audacity of selling fakes even before the new branded product makes its official unveiling,” said Marcelino Borges, director of Field Operations in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. “Our CBP field operations officers will continue to target and seize imports of counterfeit and pirated goods, and enforce exclusion orders on patent-infringing and other IPR goods."