21 July 2008
eBay not responsible for policing counterfeits, says US court
Eileen McDermott, New York
A US court has said that eBay cannot be held liable by jewellery store Tiffany & Co for direct or contributory trade mark infringement, a ruling which contradicts a French court’s recent holding in a similar dispute
Tiffany filed a complaint against eBay in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York in 2004 alleging that the company failed to stop the sale of fake Tiffany products on its online auction site.
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