Hello

I need help with trademarks. I sell embroidered patches. The patches depict various ordinary things and symbols, e.g. the Flag of France, the coat of arms of Spain or London, several trees in a group - i.e. a forest, or a blue road sign indicating that this is a road for bicycles only.You will probably be aware that in the trademark database words such as ‘London’, ‘France’, ‘Spain’, ‘Forest’ or ‘Bicycle’ are registered by hundreds of companies in various categories around the whole world.

For example, above is a picture of a patch which infringes the rights of the owner of the ‘Bicycle’ trade mark. I use the word ‘Bicycle’ in the product description because it is also found in the UK Highway Code describing this sign.

For this reason, it is not possible for me to sell on Amazon an emblem with an image of a simple fruit such as an apple.... because someone has reserved a trademark and titled it ‘Apple’.

When I add a new product to Amazon's catalogue it is highly likely that after a few weeks or months a warning will be issued.

I have over 20000 different designs of patches for sale. I receive dozens of ‘Suspected Intellectual Property Violations’ from Amazon every day in large quantities.

Is there any way to stop this? Or maybe some way to manage this easily?

I understand that these are random checks performed by automated software, bots or artificial intelligence. But this is happening more and more, and it is no longer economically viable to fight over every single product.

It takes a very long time to respond to each such notification from Amazon. Explaining to amazon support sometimes takes several hours for each individual product before they acknowledge that the product is indeed not violating any rules.

Can you help in any way?