KJK | Nov 18, 2019 | Articles, eCommerce
By David Posteraro This is a case where a second bite of the apple proved poisonous. A California Court recently ruled that Factory Direct Wholesale can move forward with its trademark infringement and false advertising claims against iTouchless for allegedly making...
Alex E. Jones | Nov 7, 2019 | Articles, eCommerce
Increasingly, manufacturers and brands are implementing a minimum advertised price policy (or a MAP policy) for the resale of their products. In its most basic form, a MAP policy is simple – it is a policy that governs the minimum price at which a reseller may...
Alexander M. Welsh | Oct 4, 2019 | Articles, eCommerce, Intellectual Property & Technology
By David Posteraro and Alex Welsh We are at or near an inflection point where the computer programs we use to create are no longer tools or instruments of the author, but arguably authors themselves. So, who owns the copyright on computer-generated works? This is not...
KJK | Sep 12, 2019 | Articles, eCommerce
By Kyle Hutnick A recent Wall Street Journal investigation uncovered 4,152 items for sale on Amazon that were either deceptively labeled, or outright banned by federal regulators. Among those thousands of products, 150 were already flagged and placed on Amazon’s...
KJK | Sep 6, 2019 | Articles, eCommerce
By David Posteraro Look at my neck, look at my jet Ain’t got enough money to pay me respect And, Ariana is demanding that a major retailer respect her intellectual property rights to the tune of $10 million. A week after we wrote about the brand risks of...