Common types of infringement on Amazon: trademark infringement, unauthorized use of another party’s registered trademark list without official authorization of the product brand; copyright infringement, Amazon’s copyright infringement usually involves copyright infringement of some classic images and stealing other people’s pictures; and patent infringement, etc. This article will introduce the common types of infringement on the Amazon platform.
1. Patent infringement.
1. Design patents usually have too many product appearance designs. For example, utility patents for clothing styles are usually applied for patent protection because a certain technology has been applied to the product. Utility patent infringement is difficult to find because it is almost invisible from the appearance. Many times, those who specialize in product development sometimes step on thunder.
2. Counterfeit infringement is a special type of trademark infringement; generally speaking, trademark infringement and copyright infringement are easier to identify counterfeit infringement. In fact, this is a special type of trademark infringement. Generally speaking, it refers to the use of other people’s trademarks or highly similar trademarks to sell their own (non-branded) products. Utility patent (utilitypatent)
2. Appearance, copyright infringement.
Platform regulations: The new design created by the shape, pattern, color or combination of the product is aesthetically pleasing and suitable for industrial applications. In short, they look very similar. As long as more than 60% of acquaintances complain about infringement, they will be punished.
Generally speaking, everyone will encounter infringement in the early selection or actual operation.
1. Appearance judgment method.
(1) To judge whether the appearance patent is similar, first of all, different treatments are made according to the shape. For example, furniture, electrical appliances and other three-dimensional shapes should be based on shape, supplemented by pattern and color; carpets, wallpapers, floral fabrics, etc. should be based on pattern and supplemented by shape; generally speaking, color difference is not just a condition for judging similarity.
(2) By comparing directly from the whole by naked eyes, there is not much difference in the external structure, but there are slight changes in parts, then it can be judged as an infringing product.
(3) The size, material and internal structure of the product shall not be used as the basis for judging whether the two are identical or similar. These contents are not the contents of appearance design protection and should be excluded in the authorization review.
(4) Pure functional design is not considered in appearance design.
2. Copyright infringement
For Amazon sellers, copyright infringement includes the following aspects:
1. The products sold are printed with copyrighted patterns of others, such as patterns on printed T-shirts;
2. The products sold use the layout of others’ copyrights;
3. Plagiarizing other people’s product descriptions may also be complained, and then the listing will be removed from the shelves, and even lead to account restrictions.
The era of wild growth of cross-border e-commerce has passed. All sellers should not only pay attention to avoiding infringing products, but also protect their products from infringement by others!