eBay scores victory over L’Oreal in Belgium
13 August 2008
Eklavya Gupte, London
eBay has won a ruling against L'Oreal in a dispute over its liability for counterfeit goods sold in online auctions in Belgium, its second such victory in three months
The Brussels Commercial Court delivered its ruling yesterday, in which it dismissed L'Oreal's claim that eBay was responsible for counterfeits being sold on auctions on its site.
The court said that eBay does not have "a general monitoring obligation" of what it offers on the website and that it was not required to police its site to prevent counterfeit goods from being sold.
In September last year, L'Oreal, the French cosmetics brought cases against eBay in five European countries (France, Belgium, Germany, UK and...
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