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Why aren't these counterfeits and/or Amazon getting sued by the original companies? Isn't this just a market competition if other company's able to make cheape

Why aren't these counterfeits and/or Amazon getting sued by the original companies? Isn't this just a market competition if other company's able to make cheaper product out of original idea and does not violate the law? I was under impression that any product without an IP (copyright, patent, etc) is subject to "counterfeits" case like this. p.s. I'm not a lawyer

lozenge 7y ago
I couldn't read the article due to EU regulations. The counterfeits are probably from China and China doesn't respect foreign IP, and they can probably open hundreds of shell businesses anyway so suing one or Amazon removing one will not help. Amazon has armies of lawyers and will argue they acted whenever they knew something was counterfeit, but as the website is automated they did not know ahead of time. Counterfeit means it is violating trademark IP, meaning riding on the quality reputation of the brand while not meeting it.
heavyset_go 7y ago
> Why aren't these counterfeits and/or Amazon getting sued by the original companies? They need to know the counterfeits exist in the first place. Amazon doesn't even give the customer the option to mark their returns as counterfeits. This is why I suggest that if you encounter a counterfeit product on Amazon, you should document it and report it to the company whose product was counterfeited.
jcmeyrignac 7y ago
LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton) is one of the clients of the company where I work. LVMH fights hard against counterfeits. Amazon is so bad at handling counterfeits that LVMH decided to never give even one penny to Amazon, so you cannot find their products on Amazon. And the funny thing is that we cannot use AWS because of this rule!
- nikanj 7y ago
  > Amazon is so bad at handling counterfeits that LVMH decided to never give even one penny to Amazon, so you cannot find their products on Amazon. I bet I can find plenty of counterfeit ones, though
  - bencollier49 7y ago
    Interesting - if you search for "Louis Vuitton" on Amazon, a lot of stuff which is superficially similar appears. Has there been any ruling on the applicability of trademark law to situations like this?

lozenge 7y ago

I couldn't read the article due to EU regulations. The counterfeits are probably from China and China doesn't respect foreign IP, and they can probably open hundreds of shell businesses anyway so suing one or Amazon removing one will not help. Amazon has armies of lawyers and will argue they acted whenever they knew something was counterfeit, but as the website is automated they did not know ahead of time. Counterfeit means it is violating trademark IP, meaning riding on the quality reputation of the brand while not meeting it.

heavyset_go 7y ago

> Why aren't these counterfeits and/or Amazon getting sued by the original companies? They need to know the counterfeits exist in the first place. Amazon doesn't even give the customer the option to mark their returns as counterfeits. This is why I suggest that if you encounter a counterfeit product on Amazon, you should document it and report it to the company whose product was counterfeited.

jcmeyrignac 7y ago

LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton) is one of the clients of the company where I work. LVMH fights hard against counterfeits. Amazon is so bad at handling counterfeits that LVMH decided to never give even one penny to Amazon, so you cannot find their products on Amazon. And the funny thing is that we cannot use AWS because of this rule!

nikanj 7y ago
> Amazon is so bad at handling counterfeits that LVMH decided to never give even one penny to Amazon, so you cannot find their products on Amazon. I bet I can find plenty of counterfeit ones, though
- bencollier49 7y ago
  Interesting - if you search for "Louis Vuitton" on Amazon, a lot of stuff which is superficially similar appears. Has there been any ruling on the applicability of trademark law to situations like this?