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Commercial-related Investigation |
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 Commrcial Investigations Department |
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CUIPPC's Commercial Investigations Department. Our managers in this department have all amassed copious experience in client management and investigations and all staff members have earned bachelors or higher degrees. Their duties entail preparing investigation proposals, arranging and organizing investigations, coordinating with and overseeing investigators and following up on, reporting investigation developments to clients and making investigation reports.
We provide both commercial- and IP-related investigations on behalf of more than 70 world famous companies and IP agencies and have thus by right become one of the most influential investigation firms in China.
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| Company Credit Investigation |
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| Business Registration Information Search |
| Research into company business registration data at the local AIC (Administration for Industry and Commerce), including: company name, registered address, registered capital, shareholders, business scope, date of establishment, annual check and company change. This includes both basic and detailed registration information in official document form bearing the AIC’s administrative seal. |
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| Detailed Asset and Credit Search |
| Provision of detailed information regarding assets/liabilities and credit, including business registration information, assessments of financial circumstances and analyses thereof, company rankings, credit scores, reports on irregular corporate credit transactions, shareholders and their share proportions, company histories and information relating to affiliates/subsidiaries, circumstances of business operations and performance, bank information, assets pledged and capacity to perform contracts. In addition, we conduct on-site investigations into target companies in order to obtain information as to their actual operations, including business scale, products, output, sales volume, distribution area, pricing, patents and trademarks. We also take photographs and record conversations with key company personnel. |
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| Company Employee Due Diligence |
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| Pre-employment Screening |
We conduct investigations of new employee resumes, employment histories, credentials, educational backgrounds, references, criminal records and credit reports. This is crucial to forestalling potential internal conflicts, acts of commercial espionage, disclosure of commercial secrets, violations of corporate regulations and commercial fraud. |
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| Employee Credit Investigation |
We conduct investigations into a company’s employees to avert potential business risks in order to elicit the following information. |
1.Whether a partner company’s shareholders, employees or their relatives are the employees of a target company (or its clients)
2.Whether the above people are government employees
3.Whether the above people have criminal records
4.Whether employees misappropriate commercial secrets in order to engage in clandestine and self-serving business transactions with the company’s clients
5.Whether employees disclose the company’s commercial secrets and technology to third parties
6.Whether company employees operate, either independently or jointly, an enterprise which is of a similar or identical business nature as the target company |
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| Employee Fraud and Corruption Investigation： |
| Whether company employees embezzle or illicitly transfer company assets |
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| Product and Service Investigation |
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| Product and Brand Investigation |
Via public opinion surveys and polls and subjecting the results of these to statistical evaluation, we conduct market investigations and compile analyses based on such information regarding consumers, products and brands, and thus identify target markets and consumer preferences and demands. We test the impact of marketing initiatives on consumer purchasing behavior and formulate precise determinations and forecasts of consumer reaction.
We observe and monitor consumer purchasing behavior in and outside of commercial establishments and immediately ascertain and evaluate reactions from consumers, taking into account the subtle variations among different consumers. We can appraise and measure the effects of pricing policies, promotions, packaging, displays, stock assortments and thereby gauge new product interest; this in turn determines which products are competitive, complementary and unique.
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| Service Investigation |
A target company provides services to our investigator, who poses as a mystery customer in order to obtain information relevant to the target’s actual business operations and services. Such an investigation enables our client to become educated with respect to the actual services of a target and thus be in a position to maintain and improve its services.
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| Business Auditing |
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| We have a broad network locally and internationally and are able to trace assets worldwide. We can obtain the following information: |
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| Debtor’s concealed assets, savings or investments; |
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| Business Auditing |
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| We provide such services to automobile finance companies as inventorying and monitoring of financed automobiles, in addition to such services to other companies with respect to their financed products. |
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| Automobile Inventorying |
1.Comprehensive investigation into an automobile wholesaler’s credit as a basis for contemplated cooperation by an automobile finance company
2.Full investigation into the business operations and staff of an automobile wholesaler to avert financing risks
3.Regular inspection and inventorying of financed automobiles and automobile certificates to monitor the condition of financed automobiles, their certificates and their sales information (i.e. whether the automobiles’ and their certificates are in good condition, whether vehicles are sold and whether wholesalers have repaid their loans in a timely manner) so as to institute a system of standardizing and regulating the acts of wholesalers in such manner as to foreclose the occurrence of regulatory violations
4.Obtaining information relating to a purchasers’ credit in order to reduce loan risks |
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| Monitoring and Inventorying of other Financed Products |
We conduct regular inspections and inventories of the financed and leased products of financing and other companies. |
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| Competitive Intelligence Collection |
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We collect information relating to competitors on behalf of our clients. We discover a competitor’s comprehensive circumstances and obtain its development model and strategy, study its core competitiveness and analyze its comparative competitive advantages and disadvantages so as to provide guidance for clients in devising their own market development strategies.
We investigate the following information: a competitor’s current state of development, any changes from previous historical trends or other new developments, investor information, structure and management, internal operating mechanisms, production capacity and equipment, business operations, financial circumstances, operation and development strategies and relative competitive strengths.
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| Litigation Support |
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| We provide investigation and consulting services in support of litigation, including evidence gathering and preservation and service of legal documents. |
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| Insurance Claims Verification |
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| We verify insurance claims and ascertain relevant facts, especially in instances of fraudulent claims. |
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| IP-related Investigation |
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| Trademark Investigation |
Trademark applied for or owned by a corporation. We investigate the corporation to obtain its general information, the status of the trademark application/registration and the use of the trademark.
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Trademark applied for or owned by a any individual . In recent years, many individuals have registered trademarks. We conduct a comprehensive investigation into the use of a trademark. Per our standard practice, we seek initially to locate the trademark applicant/owner and then discover whether the trademark is in use and if so on what product lines. This type of investigation is rather complicated as it implicates individuals, companies, a specific product label and the product market.
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| Internet Monitoring of Infringement |
We monitor a target product bearing a subject trademark on the Internet. In cases of infringement of said trademark, we conduct investigation into the circumstances of the infringement and cause the infringing party to cease and desist from its infringing act(s).
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| Investigation into Market Share of Counterfeit Product |
We secure information as to the market share of a product bearing a subject trademark; this provides guidance to our client in sales and anti-counterfeiting activities.
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| Counterfeit Product Investigation |
We investigate the production and sale of a product bearing a subject trademark, including producers, distributors and vendors.
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| Retention Procedure |
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1.Consultation. Our client representatives are happy to provide free initial consultations to our clients with respect to any queries they may have regarding our services.
2.Confirmation. The client forwards to us the details of a case and the requirements of the investigation by email or by fax for confirmation. If a case implicates a client’s commercial secrets, we first sign a non-disclosure agreement.
3.Proposal. After receiving instructions from our client, we analyze the case and confirm whether we can proceed with a corresponding investigation. If we are in a position to proceed, we provide the client with a detailed investigation proposal, including the anticipated results, the estimated timeframe and budget.
4.Concluding agreement. If our client confirms the proposal, we then execute an Investigation Agreement.
5.Conduct of investigation. We dispatch our investigators to conduct on-site investigations.
6.Reporting. We prepare detailed investigation reports during the course of or after conclusion of the investigation.
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