What protection can one create to realistically stop Far Eastern copies?

The best thing to do is create an IP strategy to protect the markets you work in and ensure you can prevent copies where it affects you most. Each business has individual needs and a strategy should be tailored to your needs. ACID provides an Intellectual Property Strategy Review for their Corporate members which is a major benefit, and an IP HealthCheck for Standard category members. Both can be accessed through your member hub. You should also ensure you have manufacturing agreements in place if manufacturing abroad, and make use of the IP attache network that you can find in the ‘IP in Export Markets’ section of the member hub.