have filed a joint lawsuit against a group of bad actors that attempted to advertise, market, and sell camera batteries and chargers in the Amazon store, with alleged infringement of Canon’s registered trademarks.Īmazon targets multiple bad actors in novel lawsuits, further protecting selling partners from fraudĪmazon filed three lawsuits against bad actors that pretended to be legitimate copyright owners in an attempt to remove products from the Amazon Store.įor the first time, Amazon’s CCU filed lawsuits against multiple bad actors that, combined, submitted thousands of false copyright infringement claims against Amazon’s selling partners in an effort to have those sellers and their products removed from the Amazon store. The lawsuits were filed in the Federal District Court in the Western District of Washington under case numbers:Īmazon and Canon file joint lawsuit to protect customers and hold counterfeiters accountableĪmazon’s CCU and Canon Inc.
In 2022 alone, the CCU sued or referred for investigation of over 1,300 criminals in the U.S., the UK, the EU, and China.
The CCU uses that intelligence to equip law enforcement to pursue bad actors. Through its partnership with brands of all sizes, Amazon’s CCU is constantly innovating to identify and combat new approaches that counterfeiters take to try to deceive customers and evade the law.
defendants who operated in concert in their attempts to sell counterfeit YETI products. The new lawsuits follow previous actions taken by YETI and Amazon in 2020, when the companies jointly filed a lawsuit against two U.S. or abroad, we will hold you accountable for selling counterfeits in the Amazon store.” “This should serve as a message to all counterfeiters that no matter where you operate, regardless if it’s in the U.S. “We are pleased to build on this ongoing partnership and collaboration with YETI to combat bad actors,” said Kebharu Smith, director of Amazon’s Counterfeit Crimes Unit. Amazon and YETI identified the fraud through the discovery of a falsified invoice submitted to Amazon, which claimed the products in question came from a supplier of authentic YETI products, but the products were actually counterfeit and supplied elsewhere. Amazon’s investigation uncovered that the fraudulent activity extended beyond the U.S., with one ring of bad actors believed to be operating in Türkiye.
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