The opportunity
2/2 · Clear, recurring pain
Criminals build near-perfect copies of well-known Czech shops' websites, and the copied shop is left with thousands of complaints.ceska-justice.czCzech retail association — copied shops field thousands of complaints (another site)The retail and tourism association's account of a wave of cloned Czech shops: Sportisimo, Tescoma and Super zoo were copied, the copied shops logged thousands of customer complaints demanding refunds or goods, and the reports they filed with the trade inspectors, Facebook, the domain operators and the police had…
- Sportisimo, Tescoma and Super zoo were all copied in one 2025 wave.ceska-justice.czCzech retail association — copied shops field thousands of complaints (another site)The retail and tourism association's account of a wave of cloned Czech shops: Sportisimo, Tescoma and Super zoo were copied, the copied shops logged thousands of customer complaints demanding refunds or goods, and the reports they filed with the trade inspectors, Facebook, the domain operators and the police had…
- 7,500 fake Czech shops were counted over a single Christmas.e15.czČTK — fake e-shop fraud in Czechia up 1,190% (another site)An antivirus company's figures: fraud with fake internet shops in Czechia rose 1,190% year on year in the first quarter of 2025, 7,500 fake Czech shops were counted over the Christmas period, and most had since been taken down or moved to a new address.
- Several copies of a known retailer can appear and vanish in a day.MPOmpo.gov.czCzech trade ministry — links to fraudulent shops copying well-known retailers (another site)The trade ministry's public warning that posts on social networks show well-known Czech shops offering goods at extreme discounts, that the order and payment go through but the goods will almost certainly never arrive, and that several imitations of a well-known retailer can appear and disappear in a single day.
P-0048 · Czech shops get thousands of complaints about fake copies of their own sites. Weeks after they report the fakes, nothing has happened.
The opportunity
About this section
- What this shows
- The problem as it is today: what goes wrong, and who it costs.
- Why it matters to a builder
- Documented pain means you will not have to convince buyers the problem exists before you can sell them the fix.
- How to read the score
- 2/2 means clear, recurring pain: documented complaints, a petition or industry pressure. Scattered complaints make it 1/2.
Criminals build near-perfect copies of well-known Czech shops' websites, and the copied shop is left with thousands of complaints.ceska-justice.czCzech retail association — copied shops field thousands of complaints (another site)The retail and tourism association's account of a wave of cloned Czech shops: Sportisimo, Tescoma and Super zoo were copied, the copied shops logged thousands of customer complaints demanding refunds or goods, and the reports they filed with the trade inspectors, Facebook, the domain operators and the police had…
- Sportisimo, Tescoma and Super zoo were all copied in one 2025 wave.ceska-justice.czCzech retail association — copied shops field thousands of complaints (another site)The retail and tourism association's account of a wave of cloned Czech shops: Sportisimo, Tescoma and Super zoo were copied, the copied shops logged thousands of customer complaints demanding refunds or goods, and the reports they filed with the trade inspectors, Facebook, the domain operators and the police had…
- 7,500 fake Czech shops were counted over a single Christmas.e15.czČTK — fake e-shop fraud in Czechia up 1,190% (another site)An antivirus company's figures: fraud with fake internet shops in Czechia rose 1,190% year on year in the first quarter of 2025, 7,500 fake Czech shops were counted over the Christmas period, and most had since been taken down or moved to a new address.
- Several copies of a known retailer can appear and vanish in a day.MPOmpo.gov.czCzech trade ministry — links to fraudulent shops copying well-known retailers (another site)The trade ministry's public warning that posts on social networks show well-known Czech shops offering goods at extreme discounts, that the order and payment go through but the goods will almost certainly never arrive, and that several imitations of a well-known retailer can appear and disappear in a single day.
The customers who lose money were never the copied shop's to begin with, but the anger arrives at its support desk anyway.ceska-justice.czCzech retail association — copied shops field thousands of complaints (another site)The retail and tourism association's account of a wave of cloned Czech shops: Sportisimo, Tescoma and Super zoo were copied, the copied shops logged thousands of customer complaints demanding refunds or goods, and the reports they filed with the trade inspectors, Facebook, the domain operators and the police had…
- Fraud with fake Czech shops rose 1,190% year on year in the first quarter of 2025.e15.czČTK — fake e-shop fraud in Czechia up 1,190% (another site)An antivirus company's figures: fraud with fake internet shops in Czechia rose 1,190% year on year in the first quarter of 2025, 7,500 fake Czech shops were counted over the Christmas period, and most had since been taken down or moved to a new address.
- Most of the fakes counted that Christmas were later taken down or moved to a new address.e15.czČTK — fake e-shop fraud in Czechia up 1,190% (another site)An antivirus company's figures: fraud with fake internet shops in Czechia rose 1,190% year on year in the first quarter of 2025, 7,500 fake Czech shops were counted over the Christmas period, and most had since been taken down or moved to a new address.
- The copies use the real shop's logo, design and contact details, and advertise 70% to 90% off everything.2 sourcesceska-justice.czCzech retail association — copied shops field thousands of complaints (another site)The retail and tourism association's account of a wave of cloned Czech shops: Sportisimo, Tescoma and Super zoo were copied, the copied shops logged thousands of customer complaints demanding refunds or…MPOmpo.gov.czCzech trade ministry — links to fraudulent shops copying well-known retailers (another site)The trade ministry's public warning that posts on social networks show well-known Czech shops offering goods at extreme discounts, that the order and payment go through but the goods will almost certainly…
- Facebook and TikTok posts are the main way the copies reach shoppers.zboziaprodej.czSeven Czech shops and carriers join a campaign against brand impersonation (another site)Notino, Alza.cz, Rohlik.cz, Packeta, Astratex, Pilulka and Super Zoo joined an initiative under the Czech e-commerce association against fraudsters who set up copies of known shops on Facebook and TikTok to extract logins and payments for goods that do not exist.
- A big Czech perfume retailer says it meets attacks like these daily across Europe.zboziaprodej.czSeven Czech shops and carriers join a campaign against brand impersonation (another site)Notino, Alza.cz, Rohlik.cz, Packeta, Astratex, Pilulka and Super Zoo joined an initiative under the Czech e-commerce association against fraudsters who set up copies of known shops on Facebook and TikTok to extract logins and payments for goods that do not exist.
Suggested solution
Build software that watches marketplaces, adverts and new web addresses for copies of a Czech shop's name and pages, collects the proof and files each removal request itself, as 5 companies already do in 4 other countries.
- The shop's support desk. Today: Learns of the copy from complaining customers. With the suggested solution: Gets an alert the moment a copy appears.
- The shop's staff. Today: Collects proof of the copied pages. With the suggested solution: An evidence pack is built for each platform.
- The shop's staff. Today: Reports the copy to the platform and the domain operator. With the suggested solution: The same report goes to every channel at once.
- A lawyer. Today: Sends a warning letter before any court step. With the suggested solution: Unchanged — the letter stays legal work.
- The shop's staff. Today: Waits weeks while the copy stays up. With the suggested solution: Sees every request and its answer in one list.
- Who does this is not known. Today: Whether anyone re-checks after a removal is not known. With the suggested solution: The name is watched for the copy coming back.
Not known: whether anyone re-checks after a removal.
P-0048 · Czech shops get thousands of complaints about fake copies of their own sites. Weeks after they report the fakes, nothing has happened.
Suggested solution
About this section
- What this shows
- One way to solve the problem, and how the work would run with it.
- Why it matters to a builder
- It is a starting point to test with buyers, not a plan. The sections below are the evidence for and against it.
Build software that watches marketplaces, adverts and new web addresses for copies of a Czech shop's name and pages, collects the proof and files each removal request itself, as 5 companies already do in 4 other countries.
A Czech shop hears about a copy of itself from its own customers, reports it to the platform, the domain operator, the trade inspectors and the police, and waits.ceska-justice.czCzech retail association — copied shops field thousands of complaints (another site)The retail and tourism association's account of a wave of cloned Czech shops: Sportisimo, Tescoma and Super zoo were copied, the copied shops logged thousands of customer complaints demanding refunds or goods, and the reports they filed with the trade inspectors, Facebook, the domain operators and the police had…
- The shop's support desk. Today: Learns of the copy from complaining customers. With the suggested solution: Gets an alert the moment a copy appears.
- The shop's staff. Today: Collects proof of the copied pages. With the suggested solution: An evidence pack is built for each platform.
- The shop's staff. Today: Reports the copy to the platform and the domain operator. With the suggested solution: The same report goes to every channel at once.
- A lawyer. Today: Sends a warning letter before any court step. With the suggested solution: Unchanged — the letter stays legal work.
- The shop's staff. Today: Waits weeks while the copy stays up. With the suggested solution: Sees every request and its answer in one list.
- Who does this is not known. Today: Whether anyone re-checks after a removal is not known. With the suggested solution: The name is watched for the copy coming back.
Not known: whether anyone re-checks after a removal.
Why now
0/3 · No deadline
Copies of known Czech shops keep coming back under new addresses, and the shops that field the complaints cannot stop them any faster.2 sourcese15.czČTK — fake e-shop fraud in Czechia up 1,190% (another site)An antivirus company's figures: fraud with fake internet shops in Czechia rose 1,190% year on year in the first quarter of 2025, 7,500 fake Czech shops were counted over the Christmas period, and most had…ceska-justice.czCzech retail association — copied shops field thousands of complaints (another site)The retail and tourism association's account of a wave of cloned Czech shops: Sportisimo, Tescoma and Super zoo were copied, the copied shops logged thousands of customer complaints demanding refunds or…
- The copied shop's support desk absorbs thousands of refund demands.ceska-justice.czCzech retail association — copied shops field thousands of complaints (another site)The retail and tourism association's account of a wave of cloned Czech shops: Sportisimo, Tescoma and Super zoo were copied, the copied shops logged thousands of customer complaints demanding refunds or goods, and the reports they filed with the trade inspectors, Facebook, the domain operators and the police had…
- A copy taken down moves to a new address and starts again.e15.czČTK — fake e-shop fraud in Czechia up 1,190% (another site)An antivirus company's figures: fraud with fake internet shops in Czechia rose 1,190% year on year in the first quarter of 2025, 7,500 fake Czech shops were counted over the Christmas period, and most had since been taken down or moved to a new address.
- Seven Czech shops and carriers had to club together against this in 2025.zboziaprodej.czSeven Czech shops and carriers join a campaign against brand impersonation (another site)Notino, Alza.cz, Rohlik.cz, Packeta, Astratex, Pilulka and Super Zoo joined an initiative under the Czech e-commerce association against fraudsters who set up copies of known shops on Facebook and TikTok to extract logins and payments for goods that do not exist.
P-0048 · Czech shops get thousands of complaints about fake copies of their own sites. Weeks after they report the fakes, nothing has happened.
Why now
About this section
- What this shows
- The dated rules and events that push buyers to act, soonest first.
- Why it matters to a builder
- A dated rule turns “nice to have” into “must buy by”, and tells you how long the window stays open.
- How to read the score
- 3/3 means an enacted rule binds these buyers within 18 months and names a penalty. Without a named penalty it is 2/3. A draft law, a rule on someone else, or a date further out is 1/3.
Copies of known Czech shops keep coming back under new addresses, and the shops that field the complaints cannot stop them any faster.2 sourcese15.czČTK — fake e-shop fraud in Czechia up 1,190% (another site)An antivirus company's figures: fraud with fake internet shops in Czechia rose 1,190% year on year in the first quarter of 2025, 7,500 fake Czech shops were counted over the Christmas period, and most had…ceska-justice.czCzech retail association — copied shops field thousands of complaints (another site)The retail and tourism association's account of a wave of cloned Czech shops: Sportisimo, Tescoma and Super zoo were copied, the copied shops logged thousands of customer complaints demanding refunds or…
- The copied shop's support desk absorbs thousands of refund demands.ceska-justice.czCzech retail association — copied shops field thousands of complaints (another site)The retail and tourism association's account of a wave of cloned Czech shops: Sportisimo, Tescoma and Super zoo were copied, the copied shops logged thousands of customer complaints demanding refunds or goods, and the reports they filed with the trade inspectors, Facebook, the domain operators and the police had…
- A copy taken down moves to a new address and starts again.e15.czČTK — fake e-shop fraud in Czechia up 1,190% (another site)An antivirus company's figures: fraud with fake internet shops in Czechia rose 1,190% year on year in the first quarter of 2025, 7,500 fake Czech shops were counted over the Christmas period, and most had since been taken down or moved to a new address.
- Seven Czech shops and carriers had to club together against this in 2025.zboziaprodej.czSeven Czech shops and carriers join a campaign against brand impersonation (another site)Notino, Alza.cz, Rohlik.cz, Packeta, Astratex, Pilulka and Super Zoo joined an initiative under the Czech e-commerce association against fraudsters who set up copies of known shops on Facebook and TikTok to extract logins and payments for goods that do not exist.
No law puts a date on any of it. The dates that do exist are these:
- In April 2025 an antivirus firm reported 1,190% more fake-shop fraud in Czechia year on year, with 7,500 fake Czech shops counted over one Christmas.e15.czČTK — fake e-shop fraud in Czechia up 1,190% (another site)An antivirus company's figures: fraud with fake internet shops in Czechia rose 1,190% year on year in the first quarter of 2025, 7,500 fake Czech shops were counted over the Christmas period, and most had since been taken down or moved to a new address.
- In September 2025 the trade ministry warned that several copies of a well-known retailer can appear and disappear in a single day.MPOmpo.gov.czCzech trade ministry — links to fraudulent shops copying well-known retailers (another site)The trade ministry's public warning that posts on social networks show well-known Czech shops offering goods at extreme discounts, that the order and payment go through but the goods will almost certainly never arrive, and that several imitations of a well-known retailer can appear and disappear in a single day.
- In September 2025 the copied shops and the retail association reported the fakes to the trade inspectors, Facebook, the domain operators and the police, and weeks later nothing had happened.ceska-justice.czCzech retail association — copied shops field thousands of complaints (another site)The retail and tourism association's account of a wave of cloned Czech shops: Sportisimo, Tescoma and Super zoo were copied, the copied shops logged thousands of customer complaints demanding refunds or goods, and the reports they filed with the trade inspectors, Facebook, the domain operators and the police had…
- In November 2025 seven Czech shops and carriers joined one campaign against people impersonating their brands.zboziaprodej.czSeven Czech shops and carriers join a campaign against brand impersonation (another site)Notino, Alza.cz, Rohlik.cz, Packeta, Astratex, Pilulka and Super Zoo joined an initiative under the Czech e-commerce association against fraudsters who set up copies of known shops on Facebook and TikTok to extract logins and payments for goods that do not exist.
- In March 2026 a Prague law firm published a guide to fighting copycats, and updated it that June.arws.czA Czech law firm's guide to fighting copycat shops (another site)A Prague firm's 2026 guide for brand owners: a warning letter must go out at least seven days before a lawsuit, platforms must act on a substantiated notice without undue delay, a Czech domain dispute runs two to four months, a court must decide a preliminary injunction within seven days, and the trade inspectors can…
Willing to pay
1/2 · Some signs
Czech shops pay lawyers and the arbitration court case by case, and no Czech seller prices the watching and the removing.Market checkgoogle.comCzech check — who sells the watching and the removing here (another site)Czech-language web search, the state business register, our own funding ledger and the register's own records: no Czech firm sells detection through to takedown for a copied shop. What is sold here is trademark-register watching, a global inspection group's supply-chain service, an association acting for film rights…
- Czech law firms bill this work case by case.arws.czA Czech law firm's guide to fighting copycat shops (another site)A Prague firm's 2026 guide for brand owners: a warning letter must go out at least seven days before a lawsuit, platforms must act on a substantiated notice without undue delay, a Czech domain dispute runs two to four months, a court must decide a preliminary injunction within seven days, and the trade inspectors can…
- What carries a published Czech price is the legal step, not the watching.Market checkgoogle.comCzech check — who sells the watching and the removing here (another site)Czech-language web search, the state business register, our own funding ledger and the register's own records: no Czech firm sells detection through to takedown for a copied shop. What is sold here is trademark-register watching, a global inspection group's supply-chain service, an association acting for film rights…
- No Czech vendor publishes a price for finding and removing one copy.Market checkgoogle.comCzech check — who sells the watching and the removing here (another site)Czech-language web search, the state business register, our own funding ledger and the register's own records: no Czech firm sells detection through to takedown for a copied shop. What is sold here is trademark-register watching, a global inspection group's supply-chain service, an association acting for film rights…
Per case
P-0048 · Czech shops get thousands of complaints about fake copies of their own sites. Weeks after they report the fakes, nothing has happened.
Willing to pay
About this section
- What this shows
- Who already spends money on this problem, how much, and how they buy.
- Why it matters to a builder
- If people already pay for this, even by hand or through a consultant, you are replacing a spend, not creating a budget.
- How to read the score
- 2/2 means a Czech buyer has paid for this, or a priced job also gets public money that pays part of it. A price on file makes it 1/2. Public money alone earns nothing. Only public buyers publish what they pay, so problems sold to private firms often score lower.
Czech shops pay lawyers and the arbitration court case by case, and no Czech seller prices the watching and the removing.Market checkgoogle.comCzech check — who sells the watching and the removing here (another site)Czech-language web search, the state business register, our own funding ledger and the register's own records: no Czech firm sells detection through to takedown for a copied shop. What is sold here is trademark-register watching, a global inspection group's supply-chain service, an association acting for film rights…
- Czech law firms bill this work case by case.arws.czA Czech law firm's guide to fighting copycat shops (another site)A Prague firm's 2026 guide for brand owners: a warning letter must go out at least seven days before a lawsuit, platforms must act on a substantiated notice without undue delay, a Czech domain dispute runs two to four months, a court must decide a preliminary injunction within seven days, and the trade inspectors can…
- What carries a published Czech price is the legal step, not the watching.Market checkgoogle.comCzech check — who sells the watching and the removing here (another site)Czech-language web search, the state business register, our own funding ledger and the register's own records: no Czech firm sells detection through to takedown for a copied shop. What is sold here is trademark-register watching, a global inspection group's supply-chain service, an association acting for film rights…
- No Czech vendor publishes a price for finding and removing one copy.Market checkgoogle.comCzech check — who sells the watching and the removing here (another site)Czech-language web search, the state business register, our own funding ledger and the register's own records: no Czech firm sells detection through to takedown for a copied shop. What is sold here is trademark-register watching, a global inspection group's supply-chain service, an association acting for film rights…
Both figures on file are asking prices from a published list, not sums any shop is known to have paid; they are under Willing to pay. A search of the public contracts register for brand-protection wording returned nothing usable, because its web form builds its rows by script, so it proves nothing either way.Market checkgoogle.comCzech check — who sells the watching and the removing here (another site)Czech-language web search, the state business register, our own funding ledger and the register's own records: no Czech firm sells detection through to takedown for a copied shop. What is sold here is trademark-register watching, a global inspection group's supply-chain service, an association acting for film rights…
Per case
What one buyer pays
- 12 000 CZK per case
- Czech trademark owners acting against one infringer patentoid.czCzech trademark firm's price list — a warning letter, per case (another site)What a Czech trademark owner pays a Czech firm to have a competitor using its mark formally told to stop: the service covers reviewing the situation, the consultation and drafting the letter.
- 34 000 CZK per case
- Czech brand owners disputing one copied .cz address domeny.soud.czCzech domain dispute — the arbitration court's own fee table (another site)What the side bringing a Czech domain dispute pays the arbitration court for one to five disputed domain names before a single expert, the formal route to take a copied shop's Czech web address away.
Validated abroad
3/3 · Proven in 2+ markets
Brands in Germany, Spain, Lithuania and the United States already buy software that finds the copies and files the removals.2 sourcesTech.eutech.euEnforceShield (another site)A Vilnius company that finds counterfeit listings, cloned storefronts and phishing pages for a brand and runs the takedowns itself, with lawyers reviewing outcomes rather than processing routine cases.In the source’s words“EnforceShield currently serves more than 20 enterprise customers and says its platform removes an average of more than 33,500 IP violations per…”presseportal.deSentryc (another site)A Berlin company selling software that detects product piracy and brand abuse on online marketplaces for its customers, funded at Series A.
- Red Points (another site)Based in Spain
- Sentryc (another site)Based in Germany
- Smart Protection (another site)Based in Spain
- MarqVision (another site)Based in United States
- EnforceShield (another site)Based in Lithuania
P-0048 · Czech shops get thousands of complaints about fake copies of their own sites. Weeks after they report the fakes, nothing has happened.
Validated abroad
About this section
- What this shows
- Companies abroad that already sell a solution, and how far along they are.
- Why it matters to a builder
- Established companies selling it in other markets show that buyers will pay, so you are not betting on an untested idea.
- How to read the score
- 3/3 means established in two or more markets, one of them near Czechia. 2/3 is one established company, 1/3 only early players.
Brands in Germany, Spain, Lithuania and the United States already buy software that finds the copies and files the removals.2 sourcesTech.eutech.euEnforceShield (another site)A Vilnius company that finds counterfeit listings, cloned storefronts and phishing pages for a brand and runs the takedowns itself, with lawyers reviewing outcomes rather than processing routine cases.In the source’s words“EnforceShield currently serves more than 20 enterprise customers and says its platform removes an average of more than 33,500 IP violations per…”presseportal.deSentryc (another site)A Berlin company selling software that detects product piracy and brand abuse on online marketplaces for its customers, funded at Series A.
- redpoints.comRed Points (another site)A Barcelona company whose platform removes counterfeits, fake shops, impersonating profiles and abusive domains for more than a thousand brands.
Sells software that hunts counterfeit listings, pirate copies, fake shops and impersonating profiles across marketplaces, social media, ads and domains, and files the removals. Its own about page (read 2026-09-21) states 1,300+ brands as customers, 300+ employees and 26,528,075 scammers taken down. Founded in Barcelona in 2011 and took up to EUR 15M in debt financing from the European Investment Bank in 2021 (tech.eu).
- presseportal.deSentryc (another site)A Berlin company selling software that detects product piracy and brand abuse on online marketplaces for its customers, funded at Series A.
A Berlin company selling brand-protection software that detects product piracy and brand abuse on online marketplaces. Raised a EUR 5M Series A led by Seventure Partners in July 2022 (company release). A named customer, the textile certification body OEKO-TEX, describes on its own site a partnership from early 2021 covering over 120 international marketplaces and social networks with automated takedown processes.
- telefonica.comSmart Protection (another site)A Madrid company whose platform automatically detects and removes counterfeit products and unauthorised uses of a brand online, with customers in more than 25 countries.
A Madrid company whose platform automatically detects and removes counterfeit products and unauthorised uses online. Telefonica's own 2021 release states it was founded in 2015, has customers in more than 25 countries, takes over 75% of its revenue outside Spain, and had raised more than EUR 20M including a EUR 10M round joined by Telefonica Tech Ventures.
- prnewswire.comMarqVision (another site)A Los Angeles company selling detection and removal of counterfeits, pirated content, fraudulent sites and unauthorised sellers across more than 1,500 platforms, funded at Series B.
A Los Angeles company selling end-to-end detection and removal of counterfeits, pirated content, fraudulent sites and unauthorised sellers across 1,500+ platforms in 118+ countries. Its September 2025 release states a USD 48M Series B led by Peak XV Partners with Salesforce Ventures and Y Combinator, USD 90M raised in total, and founding in 2020.
- Tech.eutech.euEnforceShield (another site)A Vilnius company that finds counterfeit listings, cloned storefronts and phishing pages for a brand and runs the takedowns itself, with lawyers reviewing outcomes rather than processing routine cases.In the source’s words“EnforceShield currently serves more than 20 enterprise customers and says its platform removes an average of more than 33,500 IP violations per month across its e-commerce customer base.”
A Vilnius company whose platform detects counterfeit listings, unauthorised sellers, cloned storefronts, impersonation and phishing pages and then runs the takedown, with lawyers reviewing outcomes. Tech.eu, September 2026: more than 20 enterprise customers, an average of more than 33,500 removals a month, and a EUR 1.7M seed round led by Vendep Capital. Founded 2024, so it is still early.
The German seller watches over 120 marketplaces and social networks for a certification body that names it publicly, and files the takedowns automatically.presseportal.deSentryc (another site)A Berlin company selling software that detects product piracy and brand abuse on online marketplaces for its customers, funded at Series A. The Spanish seller has customers in more than 25 countries and has raised over 20 million euros.telefonica.comSmart Protection (another site)A Madrid company whose platform automatically detects and removes counterfeit products and unauthorised uses of a brand online, with customers in more than 25 countries. The Lithuanian seller, which raised its first round in September 2026, says it removes more than 33,500 infringements a month for over 20 customers.Tech.eutech.euEnforceShield (another site)A Vilnius company that finds counterfeit listings, cloned storefronts and phishing pages for a brand and runs the takedowns itself, with lawyers reviewing outcomes rather than processing routine cases.In the source’s words“EnforceShield currently serves more than 20 enterprise customers and says its platform removes an average of more than 33,500 IP violations per month across its e-commerce customer base.” The rows are under Validated abroad.
Market gap
1/2 · Early rivals only
No Czech firm sells this work; what is sold here is register watching, inspection services, film-industry enforcement and lawyers by the case.Market checkgoogle.comCzech check — who sells the watching and the removing here (another site)Czech-language web search, the state business register, our own funding ledger and the register's own records: no Czech firm sells detection through to takedown for a copied shop. What is sold here is trademark-register watching, a global inspection group's supply-chain service, an association acting for film rights…
New, selling this: BRANDPOL. Established, selling this: nobody on file. New, selling something nearby: SGS Czech Republic, s.r.o. (since 1993), Patentoid s.r.o. (since 2016), ARROWS advokátní kancelář, s.r.o. (since 2018), Česká protipirátská unie. Established, selling something nearby: Hlídač ochranných známek (since 1992). No established player sells this here.
- EarlySells thisBRANDPOL (another site)An international platform that searches marketplaces and websites for counterfeits, pirated content and phishing pages and removes them, with an English-language page aimed at Czech buyers.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
The space is still open
- EarlySells something nearby · since 1993SGS Czech Republic, s.r.o. (another site)The Czech arm of a global inspection group, trading here since 1993, selling a brand protection service built around the supply chain: spotting unauthorised sellers and diverted goods, tracking shipments, and tagging products so they can be traced.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EarlySells something nearby · since 2016Patentoid s.r.o. (another site)A Plzeň firm registering trademarks and selling watching of the trademark register by the year, plus one-off legal steps such as a warning letter.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EarlySells something nearby · since 2018ARROWS advokátní kancelář, s.r.o. (another site)A Prague law firm whose 2026 guide walks a brand through fighting a copycat shop, and which sells the steps as legal work: the warning letter, the court injunction, the Czech domain dispute and representation before the trade inspectors.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EarlySells something nearbyČeská protipirátská unie (another site)An association of film and home-video distributors and broadcasters.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EstablishedSells something nearby · since 1992Hlídač ochranných známek (another site)An app from a Czech legal-software house selling since 1992, with clients incl. Mafra, Kooperativa, Tesco, Metrostav and Tipsport shown on its own page.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
P-0048 · Czech shops get thousands of complaints about fake copies of their own sites. Weeks after they report the fakes, nothing has happened.
Market gap
About this section
- What this shows
- Czech companies that already sell this, and firms nearby that sell something else.
- Why it matters to a builder
- A mature Czech seller means taking customers from an incumbent. Firms nearby still matter: the buyer may already pay them.
- How to read the score
- More points mean a more open field. 2/2 means no Czech company sells this, 1/2 only early ones do, 0/2 a mature one does.
No Czech firm sells this work; what is sold here is register watching, inspection services, film-industry enforcement and lawyers by the case.Market checkgoogle.comCzech check — who sells the watching and the removing here (another site)Czech-language web search, the state business register, our own funding ledger and the register's own records: no Czech firm sells detection through to takedown for a copied shop. What is sold here is trademark-register watching, a global inspection group's supply-chain service, an association acting for film rights…
New, selling this: BRANDPOL. Established, selling this: nobody on file. New, selling something nearby: SGS Czech Republic, s.r.o. (since 1993), Patentoid s.r.o. (since 2016), ARROWS advokátní kancelář, s.r.o. (since 2018), Česká protipirátská unie. Established, selling something nearby: Hlídač ochranných známek (since 1992). No established player sells this here.
- EarlySells thisBRANDPOL (another site)An international platform that searches marketplaces and websites for counterfeits, pirated content and phishing pages and removes them, with an English-language page aimed at Czech buyers.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
The space is still open
- EarlySells something nearby · since 1993SGS Czech Republic, s.r.o. (another site)The Czech arm of a global inspection group, trading here since 1993, selling a brand protection service built around the supply chain: spotting unauthorised sellers and diverted goods, tracking shipments, and tagging products so they can be traced.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EarlySells something nearby · since 2016Patentoid s.r.o. (another site)A Plzeň firm registering trademarks and selling watching of the trademark register by the year, plus one-off legal steps such as a warning letter.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EarlySells something nearby · since 2018ARROWS advokátní kancelář, s.r.o. (another site)A Prague law firm whose 2026 guide walks a brand through fighting a copycat shop, and which sells the steps as legal work: the warning letter, the court injunction, the Czech domain dispute and representation before the trade inspectors.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EarlySells something nearbyČeská protipirátská unie (another site)An association of film and home-video distributors and broadcasters.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
- EstablishedSells something nearby · since 1992Hlídač ochranných známek (another site)An app from a Czech legal-software house selling since 1992, with clients incl. Mafra, Kooperativa, Tesco, Metrostav and Tipsport shown on its own page.Sources and the full note are in Read more.
Sells this 1
- Early: BRANDPOL (another site)Market checkgoogle.comCzech check — who sells the watching and the removing here (another site)Czech-language web search, the state business register, our own funding ledger and the register's own records: no Czech firm sells detection through to takedown for a copied shop. What is sold here is trademark-register watching, a global inspection group's supply-chain service, an association acting for film rights…
An international platform that searches marketplaces and websites for counterfeits, pirated content and phishing pages and removes them, with an English-language page aimed at Czech buyers. It has no Czech office, no Czech-language site and no Czech company in the state business register, and it names nobody it works for. The figures on its Czech page are repeated unchanged on its Polish one, so they are not a count of Czech buyers, and no founding year is published anywhere on the site.Market checkgoogle.comCzech check — who sells the watching and the removing here (another site)Czech-language web search, the state business register, our own funding ledger and the register's own records: no Czech firm sells detection through to takedown for a copied shop. What is sold here is trademark-register watching, a global inspection group's supply-chain service, an association acting for film rights…
Sells something nearby 5
- Established: Hlídač ochranných známek (another site)Market checkgoogle.comCzech check — who sells the watching and the removing here (another site)Czech-language web search, the state business register, our own funding ledger and the register's own records: no Czech firm sells detection through to takedown for a copied shop. What is sold here is trademark-register watching, a global inspection group's supply-chain service, an association acting for film rights…
An app from a Czech legal-software house selling since 1992, with clients incl. Mafra, Kooperativa, Tesco, Metrostav and Tipsport shown on its own page. It compares registered and newly filed trademarks and warns the owner when a similar one is filed, so it watches the trademark register, not marketplaces, adverts or copied shop sites.Market checkgoogle.comCzech check — who sells the watching and the removing here (another site)Czech-language web search, the state business register, our own funding ledger and the register's own records: no Czech firm sells detection through to takedown for a copied shop. What is sold here is trademark-register watching, a global inspection group's supply-chain service, an association acting for film rights…
- 2 sourcespatentoid.czCzech trademark firm's price list — a warning letter, per case (another site)What a Czech trademark owner pays a Czech firm to have a competitor using its mark formally told to stop: the service covers reviewing the situation, the consultation and drafting the letter.Market checkgoogle.comCzech check — who sells the watching and the removing here (another site)Czech-language web search, the state business register, our own funding ledger and the register's own records: no Czech firm sells detection through to takedown for a copied shop. What is sold here is…
A Plzeň firm registering trademarks and selling watching of the trademark register by the year, plus one-off legal steps such as a warning letter. It watches new filings at the registry office, not copies of a shop's site, and the buyers on its page are reviews signed with first names rather than companies.Market checkgoogle.comCzech check — who sells the watching and the removing here (another site)Czech-language web search, the state business register, our own funding ledger and the register's own records: no Czech firm sells detection through to takedown for a copied shop. What is sold here is trademark-register watching, a global inspection group's supply-chain service, an association acting for film rights…
- Market checkgoogle.comCzech check — who sells the watching and the removing here (another site)Czech-language web search, the state business register, our own funding ledger and the register's own records: no Czech firm sells detection through to takedown for a copied shop. What is sold here is trademark-register watching, a global inspection group's supply-chain service, an association acting for film rights…
The Czech arm of a global inspection group, trading here since 1993, selling a brand protection service built around the supply chain: spotting unauthorised sellers and diverted goods, tracking shipments, and tagging products so they can be traced. Its page offers no takedown filing and names no buyer, and one public contract for it sits in the Czech contracts register.Market checkgoogle.comCzech check — who sells the watching and the removing here (another site)Czech-language web search, the state business register, our own funding ledger and the register's own records: no Czech firm sells detection through to takedown for a copied shop. What is sold here is trademark-register watching, a global inspection group's supply-chain service, an association acting for film rights…
- Market checkgoogle.comCzech check — who sells the watching and the removing here (another site)Czech-language web search, the state business register, our own funding ledger and the register's own records: no Czech firm sells detection through to takedown for a copied shop. What is sold here is trademark-register watching, a global inspection group's supply-chain service, an association acting for film rights…
An association of film and home-video distributors and broadcasters. What it provides its members is the finding and deletion of illegal film copies online, plus expert opinions for the police and the courts. It works for film rights holders, not for a shop whose own site and product pages have been copied, and its page gives no year it started.Market checkgoogle.comCzech check — who sells the watching and the removing here (another site)Czech-language web search, the state business register, our own funding ledger and the register's own records: no Czech firm sells detection through to takedown for a copied shop. What is sold here is trademark-register watching, a global inspection group's supply-chain service, an association acting for film rights…
- arws.czA Czech law firm's guide to fighting copycat shops (another site)A Prague firm's 2026 guide for brand owners: a warning letter must go out at least seven days before a lawsuit, platforms must act on a substantiated notice without undue delay, a Czech domain dispute runs two to four months, a court must decide a preliminary injunction within seven days, and the trade inspectors can…
A Prague law firm whose 2026 guide walks a brand through fighting a copycat shop, and which sells the steps as legal work: the warning letter, the court injunction, the Czech domain dispute and representation before the trade inspectors. It sells lawyers by the case, not software that watches and files.arws.czA Czech law firm's guide to fighting copycat shops (another site)A Prague firm's 2026 guide for brand owners: a warning letter must go out at least seven days before a lawsuit, platforms must act on a substantiated notice without undue delay, a Czech domain dispute runs two to four months, a court must decide a preliminary injunction within seven days, and the trade inspectors can…
In the room, sells nothing 1
- Market checkgoogle.comCzech check — who sells the watching and the removing here (another site)Czech-language web search, the state business register, our own funding ledger and the register's own records: no Czech firm sells detection through to takedown for a copied shop. What is sold here is trademark-register watching, a global inspection group's supply-chain service, an association acting for film rights…
The state consumer-protection inspectorate, and one of the first places a copied shop reports a fake to. It publishes a list of e-shops it treats as risky, and its own page says that putting a site on that list is only a recommendation: it warns the shopper and takes nothing down for the copied brand. A builder meets it as the channel the shop has already tried without result, and as the body whose risky-shop list is worth watching for new copies, never as a seller of this work — it sells nothing, so the established test says nothing about it and it carries no maturity.Market checkgoogle.comCzech check — who sells the watching and the removing here (another site)Czech-language web search, the state business register, our own funding ledger and the register's own records: no Czech firm sells detection through to takedown for a copied shop. What is sold here is trademark-register watching, a global inspection group's supply-chain service, an association acting for film rights…
- Czech trademark watchers check the register of new filings, not copied sites.Market checkgoogle.comCzech check — who sells the watching and the removing here (another site)Czech-language web search, the state business register, our own funding ledger and the register's own records: no Czech firm sells detection through to takedown for a copied shop. What is sold here is trademark-register watching, a global inspection group's supply-chain service, an association acting for film rights…
- Czech law firms sell warning letters, injunctions and domain disputes case by case.arws.czA Czech law firm's guide to fighting copycat shops (another site)A Prague firm's 2026 guide for brand owners: a warning letter must go out at least seven days before a lawsuit, platforms must act on a substantiated notice without undue delay, a Czech domain dispute runs two to four months, a court must decide a preliminary injunction within seven days, and the trade inspectors can…
- One international platform markets this here with no Czech office or site.Market checkgoogle.comCzech check — who sells the watching and the removing here (another site)Czech-language web search, the state business register, our own funding ledger and the register's own records: no Czech firm sells detection through to takedown for a copied shop. What is sold here is trademark-register watching, a global inspection group's supply-chain service, an association acting for film rights…
The state's answer is aimed at the shopper, not the brand, and the inspectorate the shops report to sells nothing and takes nothing down for them.Market checkgoogle.comCzech check — who sells the watching and the removing here (another site)Czech-language web search, the state business register, our own funding ledger and the register's own records: no Czech firm sells detection through to takedown for a copied shop. What is sold here is trademark-register watching, a global inspection group's supply-chain service, an association acting for film rights… A global inspection group sells unauthorised-seller detection inside supply-chain work, and a film-industry association has illegal copies deleted for its members, not for shops.Market checkgoogle.comCzech check — who sells the watching and the removing here (another site)Czech-language web search, the state business register, our own funding ledger and the register's own records: no Czech firm sells detection through to takedown for a copied shop. What is sold here is trademark-register watching, a global inspection group's supply-chain service, an association acting for film rights… The rows, the inspectorate's among them, are under Market gap.
Execution difficulty
2/3 · Moderate
Makes it easier
- No licence is needed to sell this.
- The platforms and the domain registry take removal requests from anyone.
- No Czech firm sells this work.
Makes it harder
- The buyers are mid-size and large retailers.
- Each platform wants its own evidence.
- A copy taken down comes back under a new address.
P-0048 · Czech shops get thousands of complaints about fake copies of their own sites. Weeks after they report the fakes, nothing has happened.
Execution difficulty
About this section
- What this shows
- What stands between you and the first sale: who buys, what permission selling needs, what it must plug into, and whether it needs outside money.
- Why it matters to a builder
- It tells you whether a small team can start selling soon, or needs a licence, a certification or funding first.
- How to read the score
- More points mean easier to enter: 3/3 is easy, 0/3 very hard. It is not added to the Opportunity total, and local competition does not count here: that is Market gap.
Moderate
Makes it easier
- No licence is needed to sell this.
- The platforms and the domain registry take removal requests from anyone.
- No Czech firm sells this work.
Makes it harder
- The buyers are mid-size and large retailers.
- Each platform wants its own evidence.
- A copy taken down comes back under a new address.
Local competition does not change this level. It is covered under Market gap.
Suggested first moves
- Build a daily watcher for new web addresses and marketplace listings using one Czech shop's brand name, and show it to that shop free.
- Call the person who answers customer complaints at a mid-size Czech shop and ask what a copied site costs them in a week.
- Offer a Czech law firm that already sells copycat work a partnership.
P-0048 · Czech shops get thousands of complaints about fake copies of their own sites. Weeks after they report the fakes, nothing has happened.
Suggested first moves
About this section
- What this shows
- A few concrete steps to start with.
- Why it matters to a builder
- They are cheap ways to learn whether buyers will pay, before you build much.
- Build a daily watcher for new web addresses and marketplace listings using one Czech shop's brand name, and show it to that shop free. Take it to the person who runs their online store: the shops copied in the last waves already know the problem, and the complaints land on their own support desk, as The opportunity shows. Start with one brand, one alerting email, and a link to the evidence.
- Call the person who answers customer complaints at a mid-size Czech shop and ask what a copied site costs them in a week. Ask how they found the copy, who they reported it to, how long it stayed up, and who inside the company chased it. Those answers are the price nobody publishes; see Willing to pay.
- Offer a Czech law firm that already sells copycat work a partnership. They bring the clients and the letters, you bring the watching and the filing they do by hand today, as Market gap shows.
- Reach the shops through their trade association rather than one by one. Czech retailers have already joined a common campaign against people impersonating their brands, as Why now shows, so the room where they compare notes exists already.