Helping business achieve trade facilitation thru compliance and supply chain security.
Protecting and preventing the infringement of recognizable trademarks or copyrights.
Applying the gold standard to hiring and investigating internal affairs involving malfeasance.
Summit Brand Protection was founded by former federal law enforcement professionals from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Our management team possesses over 75 years of federal criminal investigative experience, business acumen, and military service. The firm is veteran-owned and dedicated to providing expert investigative and consultant services in brand protection. We emphasize three core components of brand protection; secure logistics, trademark or copyright infringement, and executive vetting, each of which is critical to sustaining growth and profitability. Unlike most brand protection firms, Summit Brand Protection provides insight and access to the federal government processes for each component. Summit Brand Protection specializes in assisting clients determine best practices for optimizing brand protection.
Our firm’s unique expertise centers on assessing risk and performing vulnerability studies on events and/or situations that affect business growth, profitability, and value. We pride ourselves on applying real world solutions to ensure your brand is protected and your company remains competitive. Summit Brand Protection executives possess strong business acumen and law enforcement experience in brand protection, specifically in Intellectual Property Rights, Supply Chain Security, and Background Investigations. Each possess extensive time managing supply chain security programs such as the Container Security Initiative (CSI), Secure Freight Initiative (SFI), Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (CTPAT), investigating trademark and copyright infringement, and vetting individuals for security and suitability positions within the U.S. government.
Our team focuses on applying these skills to deliver a quality service and product that meets our client’s budget and time constraints. Our firm maintains high ethical standards and is guided by a set of core values that encompass integrity, confidentiality, commitment and accountability.
In one of our latest blogs, we spoke of Intellectual Property Rights and how we need to shift focus and retool our compliance strategy. This blog will focus on supply chain security and how that affects your profit margin, and how we can use updated trade regulations to refocus our just-in-time deliveries and third-party seller/buyer,…
I began writing this piece to discuss how the latest tariffs imposed by the United States and China are unfairly affecting Small Business and how large corporations garner support from the Administration, specifically the Department of Commerce to circumvent these newly imposed tariffs, i.e., Apple. The tech giant was able to convince the Administration that…
As the global market continues to expand, and e-trade and e-commerce overshadow our traditional brick and mortar businesses, companies and corporations need to rethink and retool their compliance posture. Intellectual property theft, especially from source and manufacturing countries such as China, Russia and India, have increased exponentially over the past 5 to 10 years. This…
