In today’s era of popular e-commerce, eBay has become one of the world’s largest online shopping platforms. Millions of buyers and sellers transact on eBay, but infringement has always been an important issue that sellers need to face. This article will discuss the common infringements committed by eBay sellers when opening a store to help sellers better protect their interests.
Common infringements by eBay sellers include image infringement, trademark infringement, brand keyword infringement and design infringement.
Among them, image infringement is the easiest to avoid. Sellers can avoid using other people’s images by taking their own product images and editing them.
Secondly, in terms of trademark infringement, when developing new products, sellers should ask the supplier whether it has a brand, whether it can be authorized for the brand, and check whether the product has a logo. If you don’t get a correct reply, you need to further check whether the logo is a brand. If you need to risk selling this logo, you should also do some processing on it, such as filling in Brand as unbranded.
Finally, the two issues of brand keyword infringement and design infringement were also mentioned. Sellers should avoid using the same or similar keywords as well-known brands when setting product titles and descriptions to avoid infringement issues. Design infringement is a difficult problem to avoid, but sellers can pay more attention to some famous brand products and pay attention to whether the proportion of product listing and brand is reasonable.
In addition, sellers should avoid using the same or similar keywords as well-known brands when setting product titles and descriptions to avoid infringing on the trademark rights of others. Design infringement is also a difficult problem to avoid, because the appearance design of many products will more or less imitate some well-known brands, but sellers can pay more attention to some famous brand products and pay attention to whether the proportion of product listing and brand is reasonable to reduce the risk of infringement. Risk of infringement.
The above are common infringements by eBay sellers. When doing business on eBay, you must be careful and protect your own intellectual property rights, and you must also respect the intellectual property rights of others. Only by managing your own products and stores well can you remain invincible on this highly competitive e-commerce platform. We hope that the suggestions and precautions provided in this article can help sellers avoid infringement issues and run their stores better.