Revenue Recovery
Turn Enforcement into Profit
Go beyond takedowns: Build cases, sue counterfeiters, and recover compensation that pays for your brand protection.
Online scammers and counterfeiters steal your revenue
Let's get the money back
Counterfeiters use advanced tactics to fake your brand, exploit your customers, and ship illicit goods globally. From "fake shops" to rogue marketplace sellers, these unauthorized enterprises fuel their growth with your stolen revenue.
Your stolen revenue fuels their unauthorized enterprises
Our Revenue Recovery program pursues monetary compensation directly from high-value infringers, transforming brand protection from a defensive cost into a self-funding strategy. That being said, results depend on your brand's scale, registered IP, and marketplace footprint, and vary significantly by jurisdiction. Revenue Recovery gets the best results in markets like the US, South Korea, and Europe, but let's dive in and see if it's the right fit for you.
According to the EUIPO, the trade in counterfeit goods is worth $467 billion annually.
A Dutch court sentenced two defendants to a year in prison for counterfeiting in 2022.
The US Intellectual Property Rights Center documents over 500 criminal arrests every year.
How Revenue Recovery secures your ecommerce
As we can see, counterfeiting is a lucrative game. The scale of the problem opens all the more opportunities to strike back and return the revenue to where it belongs.
High-value counterfeit sellers operate multi-account, multi-territory commercial enterprises across major marketplaces. Our program identifies the strongest targets, files civil complaints that freeze merchant accounts and payment balances, and negotiates settlements before cases reach full litigation. Basically, we’ll make a while list of counterfeit, and target them with enforcement and litigation until we get the justice you deserve. Each settlement delivers direct financial compensation back to your brand and signals to the wider infringer community that targeting your IP carries real financial consequences.
Grey market sellers and unauthorised resellers undercut your pricing, confuse customers, and erode distributor trust. Revenue recovery applies wherever commercial infringement causes measurable financial harm. By targeting sellers who disrupt your authorised network, the program protects margin integrity across your legitimate sales channels and builds a documented infringement record that strengthens future enforcement.
Revenue recovery reframes enforcement as a measurable business function. Each settlement offsets program costs. Each frozen account registers as a quantified win. Deterrence tracks as a measurable reduction in active counterfeit listings over time. For marketing and finance stakeholders, the program translates enforcement activity into familiar language: ROAS, margin recovery, and revenue impact.
Your Revenue Recovery workflow
To recover revenue from scammers effectively, you need the right mix of experience, legal acumen, and cutting-edge technical solutions. Here's what it'll look like in practice:
The ARGOS platform continuously scans 1,500+ marketplaces, social media platforms, and digital channels to surface infringing listings, fraudulent storefronts, and unauthorised sellers at scale. DeepVision OCR identifies blurred or manipulated logos, while seller-clustering technology maps the networks behind individual listings, exposing connected operators rather than isolated bad actors. Simply put, we detect, qualify, and document targets and work with legal partners to support your next steps to success.
Not every infringer needs a full-scale revenue recovery case. Investigators evaluate each target against a defined threshold, factoring in sales volume, marketplace footprint, and jurisdictional enforceability, to identify cases with real recovery potential. This process keeps the program focused on high-value targets where legal action delivers viable, worthwhile results.
Qualified targets trigger a structured evidence-gathering process. Investigators compile a full evidentiary record, including purchase records, listing history, seller identity data, and network connections, building the documentation needed to support civil litigation and withstand legal scrutiny.
Partner law firms manage the full case lifecycle from complaint to settlement. They issue civil complaints, file for account and asset freezes, and drive settlement negotiations. You set the minimum recovery threshold, and legal partners retain an agreed percentage of recovered funds, eliminating upfront costs and aligning their incentives directly with yours.
Successful cases return financial compensation directly to your brand. Those funds reinvest into your broader brand protection program, turning enforcement activity into a self-funding operation. The program tracks recovered compensation against program cost, giving you the clearest brand protection KPI available: money returned.
Your results with EBRAND
Let's get down to brass tacks. When it comes to revenue recovery, data feeds and advice are great, but results and numbers are what really matters. That being said, here's what you can expect with the EBRAND revenue recovery solution.
Digital enforcement stops the listing. O2O investigation stops the supply. Our investigation team traces counterfeit operations from marketplace storefronts back to physical warehouses, manufacturing sites, and distribution networks. Identifying the source enables coordinated action with law enforcement, referrals for raids and seizures, and enforcement that dismantles the operation rather than displacing it.
Tactics like test purchases provide the concrete proof that civil complaints and settlement negotiations require. Our investigators purchase directly from suspected infringers, document the full transaction, and secure the physical goods as evidence. A robust chain of custody protects the evidentiary record for use in court proceedings and strengthens the negotiating position when pursuing out-of-court settlements.
Settlements and account freezes deliver immediate financial recovery. The longer-term value compounds through deterrence. Infringers who face frozen accounts, asset seizures, and monetary consequences factor those risks into future decisions. Brands that run structured recovery programs see measurable reductions in active counterfeit sellers over time, as the market learns that this brand enforces and this brand collects.
Ready to make counterfeiters pay?
Speak to one of our Revenue Recovery specialists, and we'll find a solution that fits your brand. We assess your threat landscape, identify viable targets, and walk you through effective Revenue Recovery.
Revenue Recovery FAQs
The United States, South Korea, and several European jurisdictions offer particularly strong environments for recovery. US law provides statutory damages that remove the need to prove actual financial harm, treble damages against willful infringers, and discovery processes that force infringers to disclose sales data and account balances. South Korea enforces strong IP protections with efficient legal processes, and both markets support asset freezing mechanisms that secure infringer funds during proceedings.
Once investigators identify and qualify a target, legal partners file a civil complaint that attaches the infringer’s online merchant account. This prevents the infringer from accessing funds or continuing to sell through that account until the case resolves. The account freeze creates strong incentive for the infringer to settle, which delivers compensation faster and avoids the cost and time of full litigation.
The program operates on a recovery-funded model. Legal partners retain an agreed percentage of settlements secured, meaning brands pay no upfront legal fees. Programs that recover more than they cost become self-funding, eliminating the need for separate budget justification and allowing recovered funds to reinvest directly into expanded enforcement activity.
Recovery programs integrate with ongoing takedown operations rather than replacing them. Takedown activity identifies and removes infringing listings at scale. Recovery activity selects the highest-value targets from that pool and pursues financial compensation alongside removal. The two functions reinforce each other: takedowns generate target intelligence, and recovery outcomes fund expanded detection and enforcement capacity.
The program focuses on commercial, high-value infringers operating across major marketplaces. Investigators assess target viability based on sales volume, account history, geographic location, and jurisdictional enforceability. Consumer-scale resellers or single-listing sellers typically fall below the threshold for recovery action, while multi-account commercial operations represent the strongest candidates.
Timeline varies by jurisdiction, target complexity, and whether cases settle or proceed to litigation. The majority of cases resolve through negotiated settlement once the account freeze creates sufficient financial pressure. Our legal partners manage the full process and provide dashboard visibility into case and settlement progress throughout.
