Online auction site eBay has “no legal duty” to protect other companies’ trade marks or stop its sellers from infringing them, the High Court has said.Cosmetics company L’Oréal has failed to show that eBay was jointly liable with the sellers of fakes and illegally imported goods and had “participated in a common design” to infringe its trade marks, the Court said.
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EBay has ‘no legal duty’ to protect others’ trade marks, says UK High Court
Online auction site eBay has “no legal duty” to protect other companies’ trade marks or stop its sellers from infringing them, the High Court has said.