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Amazon And Ebay Opened Pandora's Box Of Chinese Counterfeits And Now Don't Know What To Do
Looking into the source of Amazon and Ebay's counterfeit issue.
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Now I may completely ignorant of this but my understanding is that much like other laws, US law and by extension, the trademark laws only apply in America, thus you need to apply for that same mark elsewhere. This means they have no real reason to respect your IP, American courts could stop the sales of these items in the US only, but it would be beyond difficult and hard to police thousands of like products. Then you have the problem that they can continue to sell the item in other places that you also want to compete in but can't match their pricing.
EDIT: Section 337 of the ITC seems to imply that you can only block the goods from coming to America and harming the US Economy.