01 Pay attention to self-inspection when selecting products during peak season

Sellers should have a thorough understanding of the products they choose and do the most basic product property rights search before selecting products. However, the main requirement is that there is a long blind search period in patents, so the search cannot guarantee that the product will not infringe.

You can check product patents on patent search websites

(1) Address of the US Trademark Search Website:

http://www.uspto.gov/trademark

(2) Address of the US Patent Search Website:

http://www.uspto.gov/trademark

(3) Address of the EU Trademark Patent Search Website:

https://oami.europa.eu/eSearch/#basic

02 Understand the supply information of the product

It is best for sellers to consult the factory or supplier to find out whether the product is independently developed or imitated from others, or whether it is an improved or upgraded product based on others' products. The key point is to know which sellers the product is supplied to.

It is needless to say that independently developed products will basically not present any infringement issues; as for imitated or improved products, although the issue of infringement is avoided, the possibility of being found to be infringing cannot be ruled out.

03 Pay attention to the details of the source of goods

Suppliers can supply goods to different sellers together, so it is very common to sell the same product with different brands on the platform. In this way, sellers who sell the same product often complain about each other's appearance infringement.

In this case, the main reason is that the product is labeled differently, and the source of the product cannot be seen. For this type of seller, communicate with the supplier clearly about the details of the source of goods at the beginning