Brand Protection, IP Theft, Patent Enforcement

We specialize in shutting down copy cats infringing on your products.

At AMZ Watchdog, we are dedicated to helping businesses reclaim their brands and control. Our premier brand protection agency ensures permanent solutions for fighting unauthorized sellers who violate minimum ad pricing (MAP), steal the “buy box” or harm your reputation with counterfeits, and infringe on utility and design patents.

With our turn-key approach ensuring results in just 30 days or less, depending on leakage severity, you can be sure that 95%+ of infringing listings are removed permanently – guaranteed. Once again control over MAP pricing, brand integrity, and your intellectual property to put profit back in your pocket where it belongs! Whether selling through Amazon now or not, protect what’s yours today with all the power of AMZ Watchdog by your side!

Protecting Your Intellectual Property Rights on Amazon

If you are a brand owner, understanding and protecting your intellectual property (IP) rights is essential to protecting the value of your products and services. This is especially true when it comes to selling on Amazon.com. Amazon has become the world’s largest digital marketplace, making it a prime target for counterfeiters and infringers of IP rights. With the right strategies in place, however, you can protect your IP rights on Amazon and ensure that your brand is not taken advantage of. Let’s take a closer look at what those strategies are.

The Importance of Registering Your Intellectual Property with the USPTO

The most important proactive step to take when it comes to protecting your IP rights is to register them with the USPTO (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office). For trademarks, registering with USPTO gives you exclusive nationwide ownership of that trademark, meaning no one else can use it without risking legal action from you or your brand. For patents, registering ensures that no one else can make or sell products using your patented technology without authorization from you or risking legal action from you or your brand. Finally, for copyrights, registering with the U.S. Copyright Office gives you exclusive ownership of a work so that anyone who uses it without permission risks infringement lawsuits as well as damages awarded by the court in accordance with copyright law.

Effective Strategies for Protecting Intellectual Property on Amazon

Once registered, monitoring and tracking unauthorized use of these IP rights is critical to protecting them effectively on Amazon and other online marketplaces. You should regularly search through product listings and reviews on Amazon for any signs of infringement or counterfeiting activities related to your products or services—including words, phrases, images, etc.—and take swift action if any such activity is discovered. This means sending out cease-and-desist letters to those responsible for infringing upon your IP rights as well as reporting them directly to Amazon so they can take appropriate action against these infringers/counterfeiters themselves.

Proactive Strategies for Protecting Your Intellectual Property on Amazon

Understanding and enforcing intellectual property (IP) rights is essential for all brand owners who want to protect their products and services from being stolen or misrepresented online—especially on Amazon’s expansive digital marketplace platform. The best way to do this is by proactively registering these IP rights with the USPTO so that others will be aware that they cannot use them without permission from you or risk legal consequences from you or your brand if they do so anyway.

Patent Protection

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Frequently Asked Questions

1. Can I enforce a utility patent or design patent on amazon.com and other online sites?

Patent enforcement on e-commerce sites is absolutely possible. The problem is that most people (law firms included) do things incorrectly. The assumption is that you have to work through typical legal channels in order to enforce your utility and design patents but that’s not the case. Each platform has its own rules as it relates to enforcing IP so it is best to work with an agency that understands the nuances of each sales channel. AMZ Watchdog successfully enforces patents and other IP on almost all e-commerce platforms.

2. Can I enforce my intellectual property on sites like alibaba.com or Walmart.com?

Absolutely – and you should. Each site has its own rules as it relates to intellectual property enforcement, but a brand should take a zero tolerance approach to infringers of their IP.

3. I signed up with Brand Registry. Why can’t I get any help from Amazon?

Amazon Brand Registry is a fantastic tool – but it is just that, a tool. You need to understand how to navigate the waters that are Brand Registry. So many brands make the mistake of simply listing their brand and do not understand that enforcing their IP takes very specific effort, action, and follow up in order to be effective. Working with a brand management agency that understands how best to maximize the resources in Amazon Brand Registry is key.

4. Is this going to cost a ton in legal fees?

Typically no. The old adage is true “Nobody likes a lawyer until you need one”, but in the case of intellectual property management, enforcement of patents, unauthorized sellers, and problems of this nature can usually be solved without substantial legal bills. Online retail site have their own rules when it comes to the enforcement of intellectual property so knowing how to work within these rules and where to send takedown requests for the most efficient and effective result is the key to success.

5. My lawyer said that I can’t enforce my patent online - they have already tried everything

Some of our best clients are those that have told us that their legal team has exhausted all measures that they can think of. A good intellectual property law firm is absolutely necessary when the situation calls for it, but the subtle nuances of e-commerce platforms are less about legal issues and more about knowing how their process works. We consult with our legal counsel very often about issues related to IP as well as unauthorized sellers. But the legal letters and information is fairly standard information – it is how and where to send the documentation in order to get results that matters. AMZ Watchdog is highly effective in leveraging legal knowledge and then combining that with the exact process in order to maximize the effectiveness of these legal tools.

6. My images and trademarks are being stolen and they are everywhere online. Can I do something about this?

You can and absolutely should be enforcing any and all trademarks and copyrights for your brand. It can seem like a daunting task to continually enforce designs and IP that is rightfully yours, but working with an agency like AMZ Watchdog allows you to go about the business of growing your brand while we do the heavy lifting on your behalf.