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Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Walmart Permits Amazon’s Multi-Channel Fulfillment Services: Implications for Brands

Walmart recently updated its shipping and fulfillment policies to permit its third-party merchants to use Amazon’s Multi-Channel Fulfillment (“MCF”) when fulfilling orders placed through Walmart’s marketplace. With this...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

How To Protect Your Brand From Competitors This Holiday Season

The holiday season is a pivotal time in the retail sector in both in-store and online forms, presenting retailers with key opportunities to boost revenue. As consumers shop year-end sales, competitors continuously find...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Spring-Time Brand Preparations

As Spring comes into bloom, brands should begin planning and preparing for the not-so-far-off holiday season. Right now, a brand has approximately six months to strengthen its presence in ecommerce marketplaces until the...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Are Online Marketplaces Liable for Product Defects? California Says Yes

As companies increasingly open and support online marketplaces for third parties to sell goods and products, the question has arisen as to what happens when one of those products is defective. Who is liable for any harm the...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Online Retailers Beware: Texas Supreme Court to Consider Whether Amazon Is a “Seller” - Faegre Drinker on Products

The Texas Supreme Court is set to determine whether Amazon can be considered a “seller,” and thus held liable, for a defective product sold through its website, in the case of McMillan v. Amazon.com, Inc., No. 20-20108, 2020...more

Proskauer - Minding Your Business

Price Gouging Takedowns – The Online Platforms Have a Say

Over the past month, state enforcers have declared a war on price gouging, but some of the most effective enforcers have not been the states. Online platforms and other large retailers have taken extraordinary steps to...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 12.18.2019 | Top Story: Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot Boards Agree to $50 Billion Merger

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Fiat Chrysler and rival Peugeot have agreed to binding merger terms that, if approved by US and European regulators, would create a “$50 billion auto giant that would rank among the world’s largest car companies by sales”....more

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Vertical Agreements in the Online Sales of Goods

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The growth of e-commerce and the resulting increase in price transparency and price competition have a significant impact on companies’ distribution strategies and consumer behavior. While the emergence of e-commerce has the...more

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Retailers Anxiously Await Possible Changes to Taxation of Online Sales

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Retailers will be closely watching the outcome of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to revisit a 26-year-old case which has limited states’ taxing authority over online sales. The Supreme Court, heeding calls from...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Have you ever used a one-click ordering process online? Then you indirectly paid Amazon.

If you purchased anything from a website using a one-click purchase button, you indirectly paid Amazon for that ability, at least up until September 11, 2017 when Amazon’s patent to this technology expired. As a result,...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Department of Justice Antitrust Division Charges Former E-Commerce Executive with Price-Fixing in First Ever Online Marketplace...

On April 6, 2015, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division announced that David Topkins, a former executive of an e-commerce seller of wall décor, had pled guilty to a one-count felony charge for conspiring to fix the...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

What Is the Appropriate Market for Analyzing Amazon’s Alleged Power?

The current debate over whether Amazon holds the power of a monopolist or a monopsonist is likely to be narrowed to one question in a court room: What is the relevant product market that Amazon is allegedly dominating? Since...more

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