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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

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

Design Patent Enforcement in Online Marketplaces

Global E-commerce platforms continue to grow, with many online marketplaces replacing traditional brick-and-mortar stores. While online marketplaces help legitimate products reach consumers more widely than brick-and-mortar...more

Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig PLLC

Amazon’s Brand Registry: What You Need To Know

In its 2023 Brand Protection Report, Amazon reveals its efforts to eliminate counterfeit products. Bolstered by more than $1.2 billion in investment and 15,000 personnel, from machine learning scientists to specialized...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

How To Protect Your Brand From Competitors This Holiday Season

The holiday season is a pivotal time in the retail sector in both in-store and online forms, presenting retailers with key opportunities to boost revenue. As consumers shop year-end sales, competitors continuously find...more

BakerHostetler

Watch Out for Common Law Users in Online Enforcement

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Many consumer product brands seek to enroll in online enforcement programs, for example, Amazon Brand Registry and eBay VeRO. These consumer product brands often experience online infringement and counterfeiting issues, so...more

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

MarkIt to Market® - December 2022

Thank you for reading the December 2022 issue of Sterne Kessler's MarkIt to Market® newsletter. This month, we discuss Pantone's 2023 Color of the Year and a preliminary ruling in Europe regarding an online marketplace's...more

Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig PLLC

Fantasy & Fair Use: How Intellectual Property Plays a Critical Role for D&D

Much to the delight of Dungeons & Dragons (“D&D”) fans, a new animated fantasy show was released on Amazon Prime in late January and has taken the internet by storm. The Legend of Vox Machina is based on the popular...more

Foster Garvey PC

Sports & Entertainment Spotlight: The Dawn of the NIL Era in College Sports

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Well, today is the big day. If you’re reading this week’s installment of the Spotlight, it means that you survived the long and arduous journey of the name, image and likeness (NIL) era in college sports. Indeed, with the...more

Foster Garvey PC

Sports & Entertainment Spotlight: What the Supreme Court Ruling in Alston v. NCAA Means for the Future of College Sports

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“The NCAA is not above the law.” Those seven words capped Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s searing concurring opinion issued in connection with Monday’s (June 21) unanimous (9-0) U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Alston v. National...more

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Sports & Entertainment Spotlight: What the Recent Senate Hearing Might Mean for a Federal NIL Law as State Laws Go Into Effect on...

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As we inch closer to the summer solstice here in the Northern Hemisphere (the first day of summer for those of you who were asleep in science class), the heat is not rising only on the thermometer, but also in the halls of...more

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP

Controlling Online Distribution Leakage By Unauthorized Sellers

One of the biggest frustrations for brand owners is seeing their products sold through unauthorized distribution channels such as on the Amazon Marketplace. Carefully controlled brand experiences and minimum advertised...more

Weintraub Tobin

Trademark Protection For Your Brand Merchandise In The Age Of Copycats, Counterfeits, And Fakes

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With live events cancelled during the pandemic, content creators are increasingly dependent on merchandise sales. Creators from podcasters to YouTubers to musicians are reliant on merch to bolster their revenue and their...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Privacy Perils: Beware Brand Phishing

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We often think of phony financial institution emails as a bad actor’s phishing scheme of choice to capture confidential bank account numbers or other private financial information. While those phishing emails certainly do...more

International Lawyers Network

Selling Your Products on US Online Marketplaces

Before you begin selling your products on a U.S. online marketplace like Amazon, Etsy or Rakuten, there are three intellectual property considerations to make: clearance, acquisition and enforcement. This article provides a...more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Client Alert: New Amazon Brand Registry Released - A Tool for Brand Protection

It’s not uncommon for businesses to feel frustrated in trying to protect their products/brands on Amazon from trademark infringers. Many believe that there’s a lack of control over their product listings, and that third...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Amazon Wins Ruling on Results for Searches on Brands It Doesn’t Sell

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On October 21, 2015, the Ninth Circuit ruled that online retailer Amazon does not violate the Lanham Act when, in response to a search for a brand it doesn’t sell, it returns a results page that fails to disclose that fact...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Manatt Digital Media - July 2015

In this edition, we reflect upon the key digital media events of the first half of 2015 and present the major deals, developments and trends across video, music, gaming and virtual reality....more

Foley Hoag LLP - Trademark, Copyright &...

Amazon’s Inability To Register Domain Name .Amazon Is An Interesting Case Study For New gTLDs

Do you want your company to control .app or .restaurant? Applying to operate a generic top-level domain (gTLD) isn’t for the faint of heart. Although several hundred companies ponied up the $185,000 application fee for over...more

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