Trademark violations
Hello,
Trying to sell football prints such as "arsenal", "liverpool", etc.
Got brand registry for our own brand but been hit with 50+ trademark violations.
There are other sellers of similar products - how are they not dealing with the same issues?
Trademark violations
Hello,
Trying to sell football prints such as "arsenal", "liverpool", etc.
Got brand registry for our own brand but been hit with 50+ trademark violations.
There are other sellers of similar products - how are they not dealing with the same issues?
3 replies
Seller_ZJhFeE3tNKzfh
They have approval from the football club to do so? It kind of depends what the prints are I suppose. But football clubs are pretty on of trademarks etc.
Seller_TlVkdnoiJiAmu
Hi,
Excellent that you have brand registry for your product.
Contact Amazon ask what they required supporting documentation for that violation.
If they need Authorization from club than contact club admin team and explain them what you are selling and supporting their club. In few scenario, offer them some fees or they will ask for some fees to make them happy like manufactures pay license fees for Disney and Avengers company.
It is very lengthy process to go through all clubs and its worth speaking them.
Another option is remove all the football club names from the title, key point, description and keywords. Place product without prints on the products and submit appeal through clicking button.
Once listing come out of the violation do what you want do with the images as buyer see the images to buyer the product.
Make sure after listings out from violation don't go back use again same words what you remove it in those listings otherwise your account will be at risk of activation.
Seller_IVuzF5F26xipN
hiya, i also sell football based items, unfortunately i had to search every football team via the gov.uk website, just google 'search for a trademark' some big cities like liverpool and newcastle are free to use they had there trademark applications rejected but if you put "newcastle united" that would trigger the bots. what i have found is that if you separate the words for example newcastle print football united within your search terms that will allow searchers to find your items without treading on any toes, similarly paid amazon ads allows you to use the football team full name as this is on the backend and not visible to trademark hunting snipers, good luck with it mate, tom
p.s. once you find the team name in the trademark search click on "View owner's other trade marks" and have a look through for example avfc trademarked the word villa so even if you put villa park it would trigger a sanction, in the end we went with 'in the holte end' as that was the only thing they hadn't nailed down and get a lovely warm feeling every time we sell one:)
