News & Analysis as of

Internet Retailers Amazon

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

BCLP

The Amazon Regrows: DC High Court Revives Suit Against Amazon’s Pricing Practices

BCLP on

On August 22, 2024, the DC Court of Appeals revived a suit brought by the District of Columbia Attorney General’s Office (DC AG) against Amazon. The suit, which the superior court previously dismissed, alleges that Amazon’s...more

Holland & Knight LLP

CPSC Finds Amazon Responsible for Hazardous Products Sold by Third-Party Sellers

Holland & Knight LLP on

In a closely watched case, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) on July 29, 2024, found that Amazon's popular "Fulfilled by Amazon" program – in which products are listed by Amazon but sold by third-party...more

Gibney Anthony & Flaherty, LLP

Amazon Launches Anti-Counterfeiting Exchange to Combat Online Counterfeits in the Retail Industry

On April 20, 2023 Amazon launched the Anti-Counterfeiting Exchange (ACX) to combat the sale of counterfeit goods on its platform and make it safer for consumers to shop online. WHAT IS THE ANTI-COUNTERFEITING EXCHANGE...more

BCLP

Amazon added to CMA’s shopping list of grocery retailers

BCLP on

The way in which we buy groceries has vastly transformed over the last few years given the increasing prominence of online sales and delivery services, a trend exacerbated by the global pandemic. As society’s buying habits...more

Dickinson Wright

Loomis v. Amazon: Strict Products Liability in the World of E-Commerce

Dickinson Wright on

On April 26, 2021, the California Court of Appeal issued its decision in Loomis v. Amazon.com LLC, which could have drastic consequences for operators of e-commerce sites being sued for strict liability for injuries incurred...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Are Online Marketplaces Liable for Product Defects? California Says Yes

As companies increasingly open and support online marketplaces for third parties to sell goods and products, the question has arisen as to what happens when one of those products is defective. Who is liable for any harm the...more

Proskauer - Minding Your Business

Another Court Gets on (Hover) Board with Online Marketplace Liability for Defective Products

In two prior blog posts, we covered how online marketplaces, like Amazon, are being held responsible for defective and counterfeit products sold on their platforms. In the latest development in this space, California’s Court...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Amicus Brief filed for Council On State Taxation in South Carolina Amazon Dispute

On December 9, Kay Miller Hobart and Madison Felder filed an amicus brief on behalf of the Council On State Taxation (COST) and its more than 500 members in the closely watched case of Amazon Services, LLC v. South Carolina...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded: Technology Law Insights - Issue 7, September 2020

U.S. Judge Halts Trump's TikTok Ban, Hours Before It was Set to Start - "John Hall, an attorney for TikTok, said that the app, with some 100 million American users, is a 'modern day version of the town square' and shutting...more

Butler Snow LLP

A Link in the Chain? Developments Regarding E-Commerce Website Liability for Defective Products Sold by Third-Party Vendors

Butler Snow LLP on

More than 100 years ago, the New York Court of Appeals issued its now-infamous opinion in MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co., which ushered American courts into a new age of personal injury jurisprudence. Writing for the majority,...more

Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP

Amazon Subject to Strict Products Liability in California

In Bolger v. Amazon.com LLC (No. D075738, filed 8/13/2020), Plaintiff Angela Bolger (“Plaintiff”) sued Amazon.com LLC (“Amazon”) for strict liability arising out of injuries she sustained from a replacement laptop battery...more

Miller Canfield

An Online Patent Enforcement Strategy That is Immune to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Miller Canfield on

The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on brick and mortar businesses. Consumers, confined to their homes, have flocked to online markets, where products offered by patent owners often compete with infringing products from...more

Proskauer - Minding Your Business

Price Gouging Takedowns – The Online Platforms Have a Say

Over the past month, state enforcers have declared a war on price gouging, but some of the most effective enforcers have not been the states. Online platforms and other large retailers have taken extraordinary steps to...more

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

The Goods on IP - September 2019: Amazon Seeks to Strike Balance Between Patent Owners and Merchants

It is no longer much of a secret that Amazon rolled out a pilot program for what it hopes will provide quick and cost-effective resolution of patent disputes for products sold on its website. The program is called the Amazon...more

White and Williams LLP

Amazon Loses – It Is a Seller Under Wisconsin’s Products Liability Law

White and Williams LLP on

As most subrogation professionals know, Amazon has been fighting products liability claims across the country for some time now. While it has been largely successful in doing so in the past, in a recent decision, Wisconsin...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Third Circuit Holds Online Retailers May Be Liable for Defective Third-Party Products Under Pennsylvania Product Liability Laws

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has held that online retailers such as Amazon could be held liable for allegedly defective third-party products sold through its website. In a 2-1 panel decision in Oberdorf v. Amazon.com,...more

Harris Beach PLLC

"Sellers" Beware: Online Marketplaces Could See Increased Liability for Allegedly Defective Products

Harris Beach PLLC on

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recently issued a decision that could change the liability landscape for online marketplaces such as Amazon....more

Shutts & Bowen LLP

Are “Nationwide” Sales on Amazon Sufficient to Show Injury in M.D.Fla. for Venue Purposes?

Shutts & Bowen LLP on

Yes. Thursday, LLC and Klhip, Inc. are both retailers that use Amazon to sell nail clippers online. Klhip filed a number of claims with Amazon about Thursday. In response, Amazon would take Thursday down and investigate....more

BCLP

States Start to Enforce Online Sales Tax Laws, Look to Tax Marketplace Providers

BCLP on

Since the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, more than half of the states with sales tax have rapidly taken steps to begin collecting sales tax from out-of-state retailers, with 24 of the 45 states...more

Burr & Forman

South Carolina Publishes Remote Seller Sales Tax Guidance

Burr & Forman on

The Policy Division of the South Carolina Department of Revenue has issued a draft revenue ruling addressing retailers without a physical presence in South Carolina. Comments on the draft ruling are due by August 27, 2018,...more

Dentons

Understanding Iowa's New Internet Sales Tax

Dentons on

On May 30, 2018, Iowa’s Governor signed Senate File 2417. Among other things, it applies Iowa’s 7% sales tax to sales over the internet in Iowa....more

A&O Shearman

Vertical Agreements in the Online Sales of Goods

A&O Shearman on

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

Retailers Anxiously Await Possible Changes to Taxation of Online Sales

BCLP on

Retailers will be closely watching the outcome of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to revisit a 26-year-old case which has limited states’ taxing authority over online sales. The Supreme Court, heeding calls from...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Have you ever used a one-click ordering process online? Then you indirectly paid Amazon.

If you purchased anything from a website using a one-click purchase button, you indirectly paid Amazon for that ability, at least up until September 11, 2017 when Amazon’s patent to this technology expired. As a result,...more

52 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 3

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide