Canon Inc. and Canon U.S.A., along with Amazon.com, Inc., and Amazon.com Services LLC, have filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. Canon’s trademark rights are allegedly infringed upon by 29 selling accounts operating on the Amazon marketplace in the United States.
Canon Inc. and Amazon’s Counterfeit Crimes Unit (CCU) have filed a combined complaint against a gang of bad actors who attempted to advertise, market, and sell camera batteries and chargers on the Amazon shop, allegedly infringing on Canon’s registered trademarks.
When Amazon discovered the attempted abuse, the company worked with Canon to certify the devices in question were counterfeits and swiftly shut down the defendants’ 29 selling accounts.
The complaint seeks to resolve the infringement of Canon’s trademark rights by the selling accounts found on the Amazon marketplace. Canon and Amazon are initiating legal action to safeguard the value, trusted reputation, and brand loyalty associated with the Canon name. They are determined to ensuring that customers have access to genuine Canon products that meet the company’s high standards of quality, safety, and dependability.
Since its inception in 1937, the Canon name has been synonymous with quality. The corporation is a prominent provider of consumer, business-to-business, and industrial digital imaging solutions, but many customers may be best familiar with Canon’s industry-leading cameras. Many of those cameras, as well as accompanying accessories, chargers, and batteries, are available on Amazon. Canon has a long history of protecting its clients by training them on how to identify counterfeit goods. Amazon shares Canon’s commitment to addressing the industry-wide problem of counterfeiting and is excited to work with the iconic camera brand.
They have strengthened proactive controls, automated and broadened our intellectual property protection and counterfeit detection systems through sustained investment in innovative machine learning approaches.
When counterfeits enter the Amazon shop, they use feedback from customers, companies, and others to remove those products from store, continuously improve systems, and work together with brands and law authorities around the world to hold bad actors accountable. Over the past year, Amazon’s CCU has sued or referred over 1,300 criminals for investigation in the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and China. Over 6 million counterfeit products were also seized and appropriately disposed of by the Amazon team, preventing them from being resold anywhere in the supply chain.
Canon is a member of the Amazon Brand Registry and Project Zero, which are both brand protection programmes that assisted Canon and Amazon in discovering counterfeits in the Amazon shop.
The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington .
Amazon is committed to keeping counterfeits from reaching customers or being sold elsewhere in the supply chain. And has created a reputation as a global partner to businesses in the battle against counterfeit by giving intelligence to law enforcement, taking proactive enforcement steps, and removing unlawful products from the Amazon store and elsewhere.
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