What is Intellectual Property Infringement on Amazon?
On Amazon, there are multiple sellers for one product. There may be manufacturers and authorized distributors. Manufacturers and authorized distributors can file a “claim” against Amazon because other sellers have infringed their copyright or trademark rights. This is called an IP infringement appeal.
In intellectual property, trademarks and copyrights are related to sales. Trademark rights are defined as signs that clearly communicate to consumers the offer and sale of goods and services. Company names and product names (such as "Amazon" and "Hot Sama Sheet") are trademarks.
Copyright is defined as a type of intellectual property that pertains to works that are literary, scholarly, artistic or musical expressions of ideas or emotions. CDs and DVDs are easy to understand examples. Intellectual property infringement refers to businesses that infringe on the trademarks or copyrights of manufacturers or authorized distributors. Since copyright may also apply to product photos, please refer to Amazon’s image rules. Intellectual property infringement claims by the buyer, manufacturer or distributor. In certain circumstances, buyers can file complaints regarding intellectual property infringement. This includes counterfeit products, fake products, copied products, and pirated products.
How to avoid being warned of intellectual property infringement?
If you receive an email regarding copyright infringement, please take action such as removing the product listing, returning the product, or deleting the SKU. Then sell your inventory on Mercari and Yahoo Auctions, or on and Xianyu in China. When choosing products, look out for those that have manufacturers or authorized dealers. If there are few sellers, check the manufacturer and authorized dealers.
What to do if your Amazon account is suspended or closed for intellectual property infringement?
Even if your account is suspended, your chances of getting it reinstated are over 90%. The scariest thing about reselling on Amazon is having your account deleted. Because you are deprived of the right to sell, even if you make 1 million yen a month as a side job, you cannot receive the money paid to you by the buyer if your account is deleted.
Here’s how to handle a situation where your rights to sell on Amazon are suspended due to “intellectual property infringement.”
To have your account reinstated, you must first apologize to the rights holder who submitted the intellectual property infringement to Amazon and withdraw the claim. If you receive a takedown complaint notice from a rights holder, please let Amazon know.
The rights holder will contact Amazon, but we can also proactively reach out from here just in case. The contact email address is ([email protected]).
Create an improvement plan and submit it to Amazon. An improvement plan must be created and submitted within 17 days of receiving the account suspension email from Amazon.
The above is the relevant knowledge about Amazon’s infringement of intellectual property rights. If you want to know more about Amazon, please continue to pay attention!
