IP claims on Amazon

Every brand has an intellectual property rights on its products. And so on, they can ask Amazon.com to protect those IP rights by complaining for a specific ASIN. So, to restrict to other sellers on Amazon to sell it. And Amazon will send notice to the seller. Any dropshipper, arbitrager or other who sell not the own products on Amazon has to be prepared and protected for such IP claim.

There are 3 different types of intellectual property rights on Amazon:

• Copyrights are legal protections for original works of authorship
  
• Trademarks are legal protections for a word, symbol, design, or combination of the same that a company uses to identify goods and services
  
• Patents are legal protections for inventions
  

For dropshippers and online arbitrager the first two types are common. If you violate any of these intellectual property rights, Amazon may send you an IP infringement notice (IP claim).

It's uncomfortable mostly. First time it can lead to the notice and ASIN suspension only.

In case of a few claims Amazon account would be suspended. Crazy thing about it is that sometimes such complaints may be taken by mistake.

You catch the letter from Amazon. Not the request from a brand or other seller. The letter from mail like notice@amazon.com that looks like this one:

Also, you'll see the notification in your Seller Central account. And could find it on the dashboard at Performance > Account Health > Product Policy Compliance > Received Intellectual Property.

In the Product Policy Compliance section of Account Health, you'll also see a category called Suspected Intellectual Property Violations.

Starts from 2019 Amazon don't apply any negotiation on your account. They just mark ASINs that unlisted. For example, notepads with cover image of Marvel with a "Marvel" name in the title or brand.

Once got the claim respond to it suitably and ASAP. Your account will not be suspended first times, but ASINs will be suspended for you.

Other way is to ask the brand for the reasons of complaint using contacts from amazon's mail. Be patient and wait for owner's answer. If there is no answer in 1 and 2 working days send more e-mails to show later to Amazon that you are seriously thinking of the claim.

You can wright the letter like this one to Amazon:

Once you know the reason and if you figure out that ASIN is not violated by you, you can ask the owner to act through Amazon to take the claim off you. The brand can withdraw the claim or restrict the ASIN for you.

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