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Prosecution of managers - marketplace counterfeits

Sellers offer counterfeits on your employer's platform. As a manager of this platform, can you be prosecuted for brand violation?
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Brand violation by online marketplace – Posterlounge

After a user enters a trade mark into Google’s search engine, they are directed to a results list containing, among other things, an online marketplace on which third parties sell competing products. Does this programming of the online marketplace infringe the trade mark?
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Infringement by way of Google Ads – MOST chocolates

You might consider using Google Ads for your Internet shop. But a project such as this needs to be thought through carefully.
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Competing offers on Amazon – Ortlieb

If you enter your brand on amazon, also appears a variety of third-party products. This is what happened when you entered the Ortlieb brand. Is your brand being used to illegally advertise for others?
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Trade mark infringement by online marketplace – Amazon

Trade mark infringement by online marketplace – Amazon. Can an online marketplace be liable for trade mark infringement because it has stocked and also shipped a seller’s infringing goods?
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Biased rankings through rating portal – yelp

On yelp’s rating portal, users are able to rate and review any company they wish to. Even if 90% of users have given your business a positive rating, yelp may still display a poor score. Rightly so?
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Prof. Dr. Paul Lange

Prof. Dr. Paul Lange, attorney-at-law,

is senior partner of the renowned intellectual property firm Siebeke Lange Wilbert, attorneys-at-law, in Düsseldorf. As a lawyer, he has been advising companies on German and international trade mark law for 30 years, in particular on the development and protection of their trade mark portfolios, goodwill and market appearance. He applies for trade marks worldwide, drafts contracts, and conducts negotiations and sometimes spectacular litigation worldwide to defend his clients’ trade marks. Prof. Dr. Lange is the author of the standard work for practitioners Marken- und Kennzeichenrecht, Handbuch zum deutschen und europäischen Recht (Trade Mark and Sign Protection, Handbook of German and European Law), published by C.H. Beck and extending to 2,000 pages, as well as author and editor of the handbook Internationales Handbuch des Marken- und Kennzeichenrechts (International Handbook of Trade Mark and Sign Protection). You can contact the author and his law firm via the website www.siebeke.com.

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