MO Law Could Be Key to Stopping Amazon Distribution of Counterfeit Products

Adam Baumli IP Portfolio Manager [email protected]   Recently, CNBC posted an article about the increase of Amazon’s distribution of counterfeit products through its third party seller platform.   It is clear that Amazon is significantly impacting small American businesses, which I have highlighted here and here.  When most people think about counterfeit products, they think […]

Formerly Practicing Entities: Part II

Jason Bourgeois IP Portfolio Manager Read Part I Small businesses fail. They do it all the time, it is an expected part of the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Many of these businesses are in low-tech areas; the failure of these businesses leaves the owners with little or nothing to show for their efforts. For the owners of […]

Formerly Practicing Entities: Part I

Jason Bourgeois IP Portfolio Manager For many in the patent space, the pejorative label “patent troll” is the first thing to spring to mind when they hear of an entity vigorously enforcing its intellectual property rights. This label has been used to describe a wide range of entities, from companies that have never and will […]

The Amazon Counterfeit Flood Expands

Adam Baumli IP Portfolio Manager [email protected] Today in an article, CNBC essentially restated much of what I wrote here about Amazon ruining America’s small businesses through their counterfeit smuggling ring. Highlights from CNBC’s article: On the Amazon Counterfeiters: “The prices are lower, the theft seems uncontrollable and consumers who don’t know any better think they’re […]

The Amazon River of Counterfeit Products

Adam Baumli IP Portfolio Manager Contact: [email protected] This article is a start of a series to explore the current landscape of Intellectual Property Law and how it is enforced with respect to the e-commerce marketplace.  This article highlights one specific case to be decided by the Federal Circuit and expands on the damage the current […]