{"id":65820,"date":"2015-08-20T15:10:51","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T22:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=65820"},"modified":"2015-08-24T21:41:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T04:41:58","slug":"r-rex-parris-law-firm-suing-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2015\/08\/20\/r-rex-parris-law-firm-suing-ebay\/","title":{"rendered":"R. Rex Parris Law Firm suing eBay"},"content":{"rendered":"
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According to the Counterfeit Report, this image depicts counterfeit products purchased on eBay — Chanel No. 5 EDP, SanDisk 64GB micro SDHC memory card, unreleased Lunatik Epik Apple iWatch Case, Lunatik TakTik Extreme iPhone case, Monster Tron T1 headphones, and Group-A Autosports lower automobile suspension control arms. (Photo source: The Counterfeit Report)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LANCASTER \u2013 The R. Rex Parris Law Firm has filed a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) lawsuit against eBay, claiming eBay knowingly and deliberately facilitates, proliferates and profits from the ongoing sale of counterfeit and fake products on its website.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit was filed Thursday in federal court, according to a news release from the law firm. View a copy of the complaint here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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R. Rex Parris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThis landmark RICO lawsuit against eBay identifies ongoing practices by the $18 billion e-commerce giant which are aiding a $1.7 trillion global criminal enterprise with the results threatening the health and safety of American consumers and the U.S. economy and damaging manufacturer\u2019s reputations and brands,\u201d stated lead attorney R. Rex Parris in the news release. Parris is also the mayor of Lancaster.<\/p>\n

\u201cA two-year investigation by The Counterfeit Report<\/a>\u00ae, a consumer anti-counterfeiting advocate, provided investigative detail and insight into eBay\u2019s ecosystem to advertise, list, manipulate, sell, finance, ship and encourage the sale [of] counterfeit and fake products. Most importantly, eBay\u2019s response to The Counterfeit Report\u00ae investigation confirms that eBay is willfully blind to the rampant trafficking of counterfeit and fake products on ebay.com,\u201d added Parris.<\/p>\n

The 106-page lawsuit asserts that because eBay and PayPal cannot continue to enjoy the enormous profits derived from the proliferation of counterfeit and fake products sold on the eBay website if the intentional infringing sellers are excluded, eBay\u2019s policies and practices are designed to, among other things, promote the unlawful activities of its unauthorized sellers by soliciting eBay buyers to purchase fake products knowingly using listings that infringe on registered trademarks; conceal and protect the identity of the sellers who are responsible for intentional trademark infringement on the eBay website; and ignore evidence of the unlawful activities by its unauthorized sellers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fundamental goal of the lawsuit is to bring attention and monetary consequence to eBay to divest itself of any interest or activity, direct or indirect in the distribution of counterfeit or potentially counterfeit products,\u201d added Parris.<\/p>\n

View a copy of the complaint here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[Information via news release from the R. Rex Parris Law Firm.]<\/em><\/h5>\n

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LANCASTER \u2013 The R. Rex Parris Law Firm has filed a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) lawsuit against eBay, claiming eBay knowingly and deliberately facilitates, proliferates and profits from the ongoing sale of counterfeit and fake products on its website. The lawsuit was filed Thursday in federal court, according to a news release from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}