With information from EFE

Last Tuesday, in the Western District Court of Washington, the multinational Amazon and the action camera company GoPro, filed a joint lawsuit against seven people and two companies, for alleged counterfeiting and trademark infringement.

The defendants allegedly used the GoPro trademarks without consent, thereby misleading customers as to the authenticity, origin and linkage of the products with that trademark.

Consequently, the online commerce giant closed the accounts of the defendants and made refunds to the affected customers.

Kebharu Smith, director of the Counterfeiting Crimes Unit (CCU) of Amazon, described the modus operandis of the merchants involved, verify that they not only damage the reputation of Amazon as a place of purchase of original products, but also violate the rights of intellectual and industrial property of the company in question.

And it is that, within Amazon’s functionality policies, the sale of counterfeit products in its stores is prohibited, which is why more than 10 thousand people work together to combat possible fraud.

Certainly, this has not been the first lawsuit that the e-commerce company has filed against such practices, and as a result less than 0.01% of the products sold on Amazon have received any counterfeit claims from customers.

Finally, Amazon assured that the UDF will continue to pursue improper practices to eradicate fraudulent actions and grant certainty to users.