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Counterfeiters Beware: Amazon Steps Up Efforts to Protect Brands

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Amazon's Counterfeit Crimes Unit (CCU) has been pursuing legal action against sellers attempting to sell counterfeit products on the Amazon platform. CCU accuses these bad actors of obtaining improper trademarks and filing...more

Erise IP

What’s Trending in Trademarks, June 2024: Toms Shoes Says Unauthorized Seller is Hurting Its Brand, Supreme Court Passes on...

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Every month, Erise’s trademark attorneys review the latest developments at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, in the courts, and across the corporate world to bring you the stories that you should know about: Toms...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

MarkIt to Market® - July 2023: INFORM ACT: What Brands Need to Know

In today’s digital world, online marketplaces have become hotspots for organized crime, particularly relating to the sale of stolen and counterfeit goods by third-party sellers. These fraudulent sales mislead consumers, cost...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

MarkIt to Market® - July 2023

Thank you for reading the July 2023 issue of Sterne Kessler's MarkIt to Market® newsletter. This month, we continue our three-part series that closely examines ways to lose trademark rights with a discussion of genericide. We...more

McCarter & English, LLP

INFORM Consumers Act: Let the Sun Shine on the Online Marketplace

Are you facing the frustration (and cost) of playing whack-a-mole with counterfeit and infringing products on Amazon and other online marketplaces? If so, the newly enacted INFORM Consumers Act could be a major new tool in...more

Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A.

INFORM Consumers Act Requirements

Retailers, manufacturers, and online marketplaces – are you ready to INFORM your customers?  On June 27, 2023, online marketplaces and “high-volume third party sellers” must comply with the new federal statute – the...more

Gibney Anthony & Flaherty, LLP

Update: INFORM Act to Protect Against Online Counterfeiters: What the New Law Means for Brand Owners and Consumers

The Integrity, Notification, and Fairness in Online Retail Marketplaces for Consumers Act (the INFORM Act) was signed into law by President Biden on December 29, 2022. A positive step in the fight against online...more

Gibney Anthony & Flaherty, LLP

INFORM Consumers Act Introduced to Target Online Counterfeiters

The INFORM (Integrity, Notification, and Fairness in Online Retail Marketplaces) Consumers Act was introduced on the Senate floor on March 23, 2021. This bill would require greater accountability and transparency from the...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Amazon’s New Seller Transparency Policy Signals Progress Against Infringement

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Amazon’s new seller transparency policy, announced July 8, 2020, requires by September 1, 2020, each seller’s page on Amazon.com to display the respective seller’s name and address. This brings some of Amazon’s U.S.-based...more

Haug Partners LLP

Amazon Announces It Will Publicly Display U.S. Third Party Sellers’ Names and Addresses to Combat Counterfeit e-Commerce Goods

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In 2020, Amazon, one of the world’s largest e-commerce platforms, has implemented and established strategies, features and resources that are noteworthy to address the rampant issue of counterfeiting and piracy throughout...more

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