[eBay Newbies] How to avoid eBay product infringement?

eBay has zero tolerance for infringing products, so sellers need to be especially careful to avoid infringement issues. So, how to avoid eBay product infringement? The most common types of eBay product infringement are image infringement, trademark infringement, brand keyword infringement, and design infringement.

Image infringement

This is the easiest to avoid. You can take pictures of the products yourself and edit them yourself. Don’t just take other people’s good-looking pictures and turn them into your own. You can imitate others’ methods, but you must not use them directly. Don’t learn from some sellers who directly take other people’s pictures without even removing the watermark. It’s simply outrageous.

Trademark Infringement

When developing new products, be sure to ask suppliers whether they have a brand and whether the brand can be authorized. If you do not get an accurate response, check whether the product has a logo and whether the logo is a certain brand. If you really want to take the risk to sell it, then the logo must be photoshopped out when posting the image, and Brand should be filled in as unbranded.

Attached is a summary of some trademark search official websites, I hope it will be helpful to everyone:

United States: http://www.tmquest.com

http://www.uspto.gov/

UK: http://www.ipo.gov.uk/

Germany: http://www.dpma.de/

European Union: http://oami.europa.eu/

Japan: http://www.jpo.go.jp/

South Korea: http://eng.kipris.or.kr/eng/main/main_eng.jsp

Vietnam: http://www.noip.gov.vn/

Denmark: http://www.dkpto.dk/

South Africa: http://www.cipc.co.za/

Hong Kong: http://www.ipd.gov.hk/en/home.htm

Macau: http://www.economia.gov.mo/index.jsp

Taiwan: http://tmsearch.tipo.gov.tw/TIPO_DR/index.jsp

Singapore: http://www.ipos.gov.sg/topNav/hom/

United Arab Emirates: http://www.ige.ch/

Philippines: http://www.ipophil.gov.ph/

New Zealand: http://www.iponz.govt.nz/cms

Russia: http://www.rupto.ru/

Australia: http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au

Madrid International Trademark Search: http://www.wipo.int/romarin

Brand keyword infringement

Previously, a seller named "Blue Sky and White Clouds" listed a product on her eBay store. Because a certain keyword infringed the registered trademark of the Ray-Ban eyewear brand, it triggered an infringement lawsuit, which led to her PayPal account being frozen.

Design infringement

Design infringement is the most difficult to avoid, because many products in our country will more or less imitate some well-known brands in appearance. You can see it at any time by checking Alibaba, especially there are a lot of Rubik's Cubes and glasses on eBay. Sellers usually look at products from well-known brands. In addition, see how many sellers are selling the products on our platform. If there are very few listings and most of the brands are branded, then this product is dangerous.