June 2026 · Insights · Brand Protection
Middle East Crisis and IP Enforcement
For most writers and news outlets, the current crisis has been framed as an energy and logistics crisis. For brand owners, IP rights holders in general, and the IP experts, that framing is dangerously incomplete. The same disruption that has emptied the Strait of Hormuz of tankers has also fractured the authenticated supply chains, customs controls, and digital enforcement systems on which intellectual property rights depend.