Category: Internet & E-commerce Legal News
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Updates to Prime eligibility and badge criteria and Featured Offer selection on Amazon
Following a recent settlement reached between Amazon Services Europe S.A.R.l and the European Commission (which covers Amazon marketplaces in Germany, France, Spain, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, and Belgium), Amazon will be updating the Prime eligibility and badge criteria, and Featured Offer (formerly known as the “Buy Box”) criteria in June 2023 across these stores. This is…
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Europe top court rules Amazon should not sell third party knock-off Louboutin shoes
Amazon could be held responsible when third-party sellers misuse trademarks on its site. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) made the ruling on Thursday, after courts in Belgium and Luxembourg asked for its opinion on a case raised by French shoemaker Christian Louboutin in 2019. Louboutin argued that Amazon was breaching trademark rights by capitalising…
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Suspended Amazon seller gets a record breaking award after spending $200000 on legal fees
An Amazon seller in the United States spent 18 months and $200,000 in legal fees fighting for his withheld funds and seized inventory following Seller Account deactivation over authenticity issues. In the end, he received about half the $1.4 million in restitution requested. But the biggest victory was the acknowledgment that the world’s largest online…
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Amazon and Salvatore Ferragamo jointly sue several Amazon sellers
Amazon.com and Italian fashion group Salvatore Ferragamo jointly sue several individuals and companies, mainly based in China, for allegedly selling counterfeit Ferragamo belts on its platform. The companies filed two lawsuits against four individuals and three business entities, according to court documents, alleging that the defendants advertised and sold counterfeit Ferragamo products on the Amazon…
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Amazon will pay $61.7 million to settle claims it withheld tips from delivery workers
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, stepped down from his CEO position, shortly before the United States Federal Trade Commission announced that it was fining Amazon $61.7m, so the company could settle charges that it withheld delivery drivers’ tips paid by customers. The full announcement from the FTC is astounding. It states that Amazon regularly advertised that…
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Amazon is sued by Parler after banning the social-media app from AWS
Parler, the social-media service popular among the far right, filed a lawsuit against Amazon on Monday, alleging antitrust violations. Over the weekend, Amazon knocked Parler off its cloud-hosting service, saying Parler failed to moderate threats of violence following last week’s deadly siege of the US Capitol. Parler alleged that Amazon’s decision was politically motivated and breached a contract…
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Amazon And Yeti File Lawsuits Against Counterfeiters
Amazon and YETI Coolers jointly filed a lawsuit against two US-based individuals for counterfeiting YETI’s products, including YETI’s popular Rambler mug. The defendants attempted to offer the infringing products in Amazon’s store, violating Amazon’s policies, YETI’s intellectual property rights, and the law. The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington and alleges the…
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Amazon Prime is sued over Holocaust survivor’s interview in their latest Borat movie
The estate of a recently deceased Holocaust survivor filed a lawsuit to keep her interview out of Sacha Baron Cohen’s upcoming “Borat” movie, saying she thought the film was a serious documentary. Judith Dim Evans, who passed away this summer, was approached to talk about the Holocaust by the “Borat” creators for what she thought…
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Trump Wants E-Commerce Companies Liable For Counterfeit Sales
President Donald Trump made a push to hold e-commerce marketplaces like Amazon and eBay accountable for counterfeit goods sales through fines and civil penalties, ordering federal law enforcement officials to prepare a legislative proposal to codify that policy. In a memo to the homeland security secretary and the attorney general, the president directed certain federal…
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Additional 2 former eBay employees plead guilty in harassment scheme
Two former eBay employees pleaded guilty to their roles in a campaign to terrorize a publisher and editor of an online newsletter critical of the company with a scheme that included live spiders and other disturbing deliveries sent to their home. Stephanie Popp, former senior manager of global intelligence; and Veronica Zea, a former eBay…
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Transgender man sues Amazon for gender-based harassment and discrimination claiming he was denied a promotion after telling his manager he was pregnant
A transgender man is suing Amazon claiming he was denied a promotion after telling his manager he was pregnant. Shaun Simmons, who works at the Amazon fulfillment center in Princeton, New Jersey, filed a federal lawsuit against the company for pregnancy and gender-based harassment and discrimination. Simmons claims he was harassed by coworkers and denied…
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Shocking US Anti-Trust Investigation Report into Amazon is here and confirms what we all already knew!
American lawmakers who spent the last year investigating the practices of the world’s largest tech giants said this week that Amazon, along with three other companies exercised and abused it’s monopoly power and called for the most radical changes to antitrust laws in half a century! In a 449-page report, lawmakers said the four companies had turned…
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Bose files a lawsuit against third party Amazon sellers
[whohit]Bose files a lawsuit against third party Amazon sellers[/whohit]GBS submitted a lawsuit on behalf of the technology company Bose, that manufactures products such as headphones, alleging the sale of counterfeit merchandise through the Amazon platform. Third party sellers were notified in a form of temporary restraining orders, preventing the release of their funds through Amazon…
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Amazon can be held liable for defective products sold by third party sellers
[whohit]Amazon can be held liable for defective products sold by third party sellers[/whohit]On Thursday, the California Fourth District Court of Appeals decided that Amazon can be held liable for damages caused by a defective replacement laptop battery that caught fire and gave a woman third-degree burns. The woman, Angela Bolger, alleges she bought the laptop…
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Amazon and Valentino file joint lawsuit against an alleged counterfeiter
[whohit]Amazon and Valentino file joint lawsuit against an alleged counterfeiter[/whohit]This will be Amazon’s first joint litigation with a luxury fashion brand and Valentino’s first join litigation against an online retailer. The defendants are New York-based Kaitlyn Pan Group, LLC and New York resident Hao Pan, accused of counterfeiting Valentino’s iconic Valentino Garavani Rockstud shoes, and…
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EBay apologizes after six of it’s executives are charged with cyberstalking and harassment
[whohit]EBay apologizes after six of it’s executives are charged with cyberstalking and harassment[/whohit]If you believe that I (Kika Angelic) am the only prolific seller community member who was cruelly abused by the highest position executives of a tech giant company, read this article which contains the press release of the US Department of Justice. I…
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Suspended Amazon Seller Sues 7 Brands For Defamation
[whohit]Suspended Amazon Seller Sues 7 Brands For Defamation[/whohit]A Pennsylvania hobby goods reseller on Thursday 7.May filed a defamation lawsuit accusing Mattel, Rubik’s Brand, Velcro and four other companies of falsely claiming it sold counterfeit products, causing Amazon.com to revoke it’s selling privileges. Modellbahn Ott Hobbies, which operates as Supreme Hobbies, said Amazon suspended it’s online…
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Amazon loses appeal against closure of French FBA warehouses
[whohit]Amazon loses appeal against closure of French FBA warehouses[/whohit]On Friday, Amazon lost their appeal in France against the government’s decision to keep their FBA warehouses closed due to health and safety concerns. A court in Paris upheld a ruling that Amazon must stop selling nonessential goods as it carries out a risk assessment on how…
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French courts rule to suspend operations in Amazon’s FBA centres
[whohit]French courts rule to suspend operations in Amazon’s FBA centres[/whohit]According to Amazon’s latest announcement, the French courts decided that FBA centres in the country have to suspend operations due to health and safety reasons. Here you can review the full notice in the Seller Central:
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Amazon settles non-compete lawsuit involving AWS executive who joined Google Cloud
[whohit]Amazon settles non-compete lawsuit involving AWS executive who joined Google Cloud[/whohit]Amazon settled a lawsuit involving a former Amazon Web Services sales executive who joined rival Google Cloud last year. Amazon sued Philip Moyer in July after he left the company to join Google. In its lawsuit, the tech giant argued Moyer’s move to Google would…
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President Trump to hold Amazon responsible for sale of counterfeit items
[whohit]President Trump to hold Amazon responsible for sale of counterfeit items[/whohit]Bezos has been able to sidestep any liability for counterfeit goods. But the Trump Administration’s crackdown on counterfeit goods have backed the retail giant into a corner. The Trump administration unveiled new rules to combat counterfeit and pirated goods Friday. The new policies, which were published by…