With the amount of product sales occurring on e-commerce platforms, such as Amazon Marketplace, it’s common for businesses to encounter intellectual property and other infringement issues. Our team is skilled at navigating not just the platforms, but the IP matters, to help protect our clients.

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin’s Amazon & E-Commerce Practice counsels online sellers, IP owners, and e-marketers on the full spectrum of intellectual property issues arising on the Amazon Marketplace and other e-commerce platforms. Our multidisciplinary team of attorneys, with experience in e-commerce, IP litigation, dispute resolution, and IP prosecution, regularly addresses infringement complaints, participates in Amazon’s dispute processes, and assists with the acquisitions and sales of online businesses.

Representing intellectual property owners, our attorneys devise strategies to ensure that infringing products and sales materials can be taken down from the Amazon Marketplace and other online platforms. We assist copyright owners in removing designs, photographs, and product descriptions that infringe their copyrights, and patent and trademark owners in removing products that infringe their rights.

Conversely, our attorneys advise and defend online sellers accused of patent, trademark, and copyright infringement. Our effective strategies have led to the reinstatement of many listings previously removed due to wrongful infringement allegations.

We represent IP owners and Amazon Marketplace sellers involved in Amazon’s APEX patent dispute process, an invite-only program in which a third-party evaluator resolves disputes between utility patent owners and Amazon Marketplace sellers accused of infringement.

In addition to enforcing intellectual property rights and defending against infringement allegations, our attorneys perform IP portfolio audits ensuring that a seller’s intellectual property assets are properly owned and registered, conduct IP due diligence and represent aggregators and other purchasers of online businesses, and assist purchasers in properly acquiring and recording title to the purchased IP. Leveraging our Firm’s Corporate, Capital Markets, and M&A, Labor & Employment, and Tax Practices, we assist clients seeking to acquire Amazon Marketplace and other online sellers.

Our attorneys regularly write and speak on intellectual property issues arising online and on Amazon’s APEX patent dispute process. Our broad knowledge of online intellectual property disputes, particularly those involving the Amazon Marketplace and affiliate marketing, has been featured in Forbes, Bloomberg Law, and Intellectual Property Magazine, IP Law 360, and our articles have appeared in IP Law 360 and JD Supra.