Online auction giant eBay has won a trademark infringement case brought against it by luxury goods maker L’Oreal (which also owns Yves Saint Laurent and Lancome), in which L’Oreal had tried to argue that eBay was liable for trademark infringements from users selling counterfeit goods on the service. While the court essentially agreed eBay could be going more to prevent trademark infringement, it ruled the auction giant doesn’t have any liability for trademark infringements committed by its users.
The decision follows similar judgments in Belgium and (just last week) in France, although L’Oreal won two cases in Germany that involved counterfeit perfumes and products sold without packaging.
