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A Woburn business allegedly tried to profit from Bill Belichick’s favorite catchphrase

The NFL has been known to do its job when it comes to aggressively patrolling and protecting its intellectual property rights.

And that apparently includes the popular — and trademarked — mantra of the league’s most famous coach.

According to officials, the NFL received a tip from the investigatory arm of the Department of Homeland Security last December that a kiosk at the South Shore Plaza in Braintree was selling counterfeit “Do Your Job” shirts, sweatshirts, and other knockoff merchandise.

Belichick’s well-known maxim — while often appropriated by politicians, among other — was trademarked by the New England Patriots in 2014.