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Knobbe Martens

A Discussion With Amazon Counterfeit Crimes Unit’s Joe Wheatley: How Amazon Finds Bad Actors and Removes Counterfeit Products

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In this inaugural episode of the Knobbe IP+ podcast, Knobbe Martens partner Greg Phillips speaks with Joe Wheatley, Senior Counsel, Amazon Counterfeit Crimes Unit, about how the Counterfeit Crimes Unit searches the Amazon...more

Stikeman Elliott LLP

Don’t Miss Out! Competition Bureau Releases New Deceptive Marketing Guidance

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The Competition Bureau published its sixth volume of the Deceptive Marketing Practices Digest on April 17. The latest edition looks at the use of fake scarcity cues in online marketplaces and provides an update on drip...more

Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig PLLC

Counterfeit goods are flooding the internet. What can we do?

It used to be that counterfeit goods in the United States originated in well-known places like New York City’s Canal Street, or perhaps other niches in a city near you. ...more

Hogan Lovells

Welcome to the Holiday Guide 2021

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The holiday shopping season is upon us once again and this year, as last, continues to present challenges for consumer companies and retailers. Omnichannel is growing in prominence as consumers maintain their reliance on...more

K&L Gates LLP

Not-So-Free Shipping: Yeezy Brand to Pay US$950,000 Over Late Shipping Under California Consumer Protection Laws

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Supply chain disruptions, coupled with a surge in online shopping, have led to overstretched companies and impatient customers. The supply chain crisis continues to cause shipping delays across the nation as companies...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 6.14.2021 | Top Story: Whistleblowers Allege Private Equity Games U.S. Tax System

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The Times digs into what it’s calling private equity’s “conquer[ing of] the American tax system”—where “slight-of-hand tax-avoidance strategies” are so “aggressive” and pervasive that “at least three private equity officials...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 6.2.2021 | Top Story: Ransomware Attack Hobbles World’s Top Meat Processor JBS

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JBS, the world’s largest meat processor, shuttered operations at locations throughout the U.S. and Canada on Tuesday after a ransomware attack that also impacted its Australian operations. The White House has confirmed that...more

Hogan Lovells

Coronavirus: The Hill and the Headlines, November 2020 # 9

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In Washington: Two public health experts on President-elect Biden’s COVID-19 task force rejected the idea of broad “lockdowns” like those seen in the spring designed to slow skyrocketing case numbers. Celine Gounder told...more

Gibney Anthony & Flaherty, LLP

Trump Administration Seeks Legislation to Hold E-Commerce Platforms Accountable for Counterfeit Sales

On October 13, 2020, President Trump signed a “Memorandum on Stopping Counterfeit Trafficking on E-commerce Platforms Through Fines and Civil Penalties” to combat trademark counterfeiting by taking aim at the e-commerce...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

COVID-19 Expected To Trigger Sales Declines; OEMs Should Plan Ahead

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Seyfarth Synopsis: At the beginning of 2020, industry pundits predicted only a moderate decline in auto sales for the year. Those “moderate decline” predictions took a sharp turn on Wednesday, with Morgan Stanley slashing its...more

Goulston & Storrs PC

Coronavirus: Impact on the Retail Industry

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Coronavirus Disease 2019 or “COVID-19” continues to dominate national and international discussion. News outlets in Boston, New York, London, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, and every other city and town in the world continue...more

ArentFox Schiff

Coronavirus Crisis: What US Retail Companies Need to do to Protect Against Business Implications

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As the coronavirus continues to wreak havoc globally, long-term business implications are imminent for US companies. The fashion and retail industries are specifically affected due to the volume of goods produced in China,...more

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An Unintended Interruption to the Global Supply Chain

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The current outbreak of COVID-19 (the coronoavirus) will be a test of the global supply chain’s strength in the face of unintended interruptions, and can be a lesson on building-in supply-chain contingency plans.  As a result...more

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What US Retail Companies Need to do to Protect Against Business Implications of the Coronavirus

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As the coronavirus continues to wreak havoc globally, long-term business implications are imminent for US companies - The fashion and retail industries are specifically affected due to the volume of goods produced in...more

Gibney Anthony & Flaherty, LLP

SHOP Safe Act of 2020: Making E-Commerce Companies Liable for Counterfeits

The House of Representatives recently introduced the Stopping Harmful Offers on Platforms by Screening Against Fakes in E-commerce (SHOP Safe) Act of 2020. The bipartisan bill incentivizes e-commerce platforms to adopt best...more

Goulston & Storrs PC

Sustainable Fashion – A G&S Panel Discussion

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On January 13, 2020, Goulston & Storrs PC hosted a panel discussion featuring leaders in the fashion industry’s movement towards more sustainable practices.  The panel was organized by Jen Furey, a member of Goulston & Storrs...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 10.24.2019 | Top Story: Lawmakers Grill Zuckerberg on Libra and Political Ads

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We didn’t get flop sweat Zuck, but it was still a hot seat indeed for Facebook’s founder and CEO on the Hill yesterday, who fielded a wide range of questions from Libra to political freedom of expression on his platform....more

Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig LLP

Should Amazon be Liable for Products Sold in its Marketplace?

Amazon, the largest e-commerce website in the world and a member of the “Big Four” has repeatedly, and successfully, argued that the company is not liable for harm caused by the defective products that are sold by third...more

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Environmental Health News: New Proposition 65 Rules Are Now In Effect

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Proposition 65 (often referred to as “Prop 65”) is an environmental health law enacted in California as the “Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act” in 1986. Despite this official title, the scope of Prop 65 regulates...more

Perkins Coie

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to Improve Holiday Sales

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Why AI/ML Matters for the Retail Industry - Retailers worldwide are predicted to spend an unprecedented $2 billion on artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) capabilities in 2018. By 2022, that number will jump to...more

Verrill

A New Hurdle in Prop. 65 Compliance: Inter-Supply Chain Information Requests

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Most industry professionals are aware that a revised set of California Proposition 65 or “Prop. 65” regulations will take effect at the end of the month on August 30, 2018. Prop. 65 is a so-called right-to-know statute that,...more

A&O Shearman

Vertical Agreements in the Online Sales of Goods

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The growth of e-commerce and the resulting increase in price transparency and price competition have a significant impact on companies’ distribution strategies and consumer behavior. While the emergence of e-commerce has the...more

BCLP

EU & Competition Law Update – June 2017

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Hope for a Cleaner Brexit After ECJ Ruling - In a ruling which is likely to have positive implications for a possible Brexit deal, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on 16 May 2017 opened up the ability of the EU...more

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EU Retail News – October 2016

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Can retailers find the perfect mix? Retailers are increasingly under pressure to evaluate their business models and, in particular, the mix of their in-store, online and mobile offerings. Just as there are few pure-play...more

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

EU Retail News - April 2016

Welcome to the first issue of EU Retail News written by members of the Retail Team at Bryan Cave - EU and US: Marketing fitspiration from SoulCycle - SoulCycle has taken the US by storm, with fitness studios...more

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