Podcast - The Briefing: Unmasking Luxury Knockoffs – Amazon Sues Influencers for Promoting Counterfeit Goods
Fashion Counsel: Privacy in the Retail Fashion Industry
Law Brief®: Mark Rosenberg and Richard Schoenstein Discuss Online Distribution Leakage
Nota Bene Episode 98: The U.S. Supreme Court’s Mark on U.S. Antitrust Law for 2020 with Thomas Dillickrath and Bevin Newman
Podcast: South Dakota v. Wayfair
Stealth Lawyers: Steven Abt & Moiz Ali, Craft Spirits Curators
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
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
The recent passage of the Integrity, Notification, and Fairness in Online Retail Marketplaces for Consumers Act (INFORM Act) bears significant implications for brand owners and online marketplaces. For brand owners, the...more
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
Businesses regularly lose revenue because of inadequate online brand enforcement. At the same time, online marketplace consumers regularly purchase counterfeit products without ever knowing that they purchased a fake. Sales...more
In today’s ever-expanding e-commerce environment, online brand protection and enforcement has become a necessary undertaking of paramount importance for brand owners in efforts to combat the illicit trade of counterfeit and...more
E-commerce was already booming when the pandemic struck, and now it feels ubiquitous. Consumers spent $861.12 billion online with U.S. retailers in 2020, up 44.0% from $598.02 billion in 2019, representing 21.3% of total...more
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
The impact of COVID-19 restrictions and precautions, combined with trending consumer preferences to shop online, is fueling bankruptcy filings of well-known brick-and-mortar brands. As customers bid farewell to fond strip...more
The current COVID-19 pandemic has forced many businesses online in order to survive. In many cases, businesses had no plans to be online. Others were forced to move online more quickly than planned. In order to assist these...more
The coronavirus pandemic has presented many challenges for those in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) space, and beyond. Supply chain disruptions, rapid migration of point-of-sale from brick-and-mortar outlets to online...more
Welcome to our latest edition of Retail Rap. From influencer marketing to launching a startup and ensuring digital advertising complies with the latest regulations, retail issues are making news—and presenting legal...more
The ICSC New York Deal Making Conference (“NYDMC”) was held at the Jacob Javits Convention Center from December 4 – 6. NYDMC is ICSC’s second largest conference, with about 10,000 in attendance this year....more
Counterfeiting has moved beyond high-priced luxury goods to low-cost everyday items. Many of these fake products pose real dangers: face masks with arsenic; phone adapters that can electrocute you; computer chargers that fry...more
In a major victory for luxury brands in Europe that could have far-reaching effects on e-commerce sales of luxury products in the future, the European Court of Justice (COJ) recently held that a luxury goods supplier can stop...more
Online sales platforms have made shopping more convenient for consumers around the world. Consumers can purchase goods abroad and receive them within days. This convenience, however, has not come without controversy....more
According to recent Nielsen ratings, the most watched TV shows and live TV events top off at around 20 million viewers. In contrast, the most popular personalities on various social media platforms have well over 100 million...more
From time to time, new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) become available for registration. Among the many gTLDs newly available is .store. This gTLD is intended to provide brand owners with a domain that is instantly...more
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
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
Retail, like other industries, is facing challenging times. As we mentioned in our recent ‘HR Now’ blog, employers are facing a world characterised by: - continuous change – including rapid digitisation and globalisation...more