By Dominick Pellegrini
In 2018, Williams-Sonoma filed a lawsuit against Amazon’s furniture business, Rivet. According to Fox News, Williams-Sonoma claims that Rivet used their designs in order to sell cheaper furniture. The case was handled in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California, which ruled in a dismissal of the case due to a settlement reached by the parties involved.
According to Retail Dive, during the case Amazon claimed that that Williams-Sonoma misused the term “counterfeit.” If the courts ruled in favor of Amazon, this would cause Amazon to win and Williams-Sonoma would have difficulty bringing up any future cases against the company. Over the past few years, Amazon has faced multiple lawsuits based on knockoff items from competitors.
Many items sold on Amazon are from third-party vendors. There have been many lawsuits against Amazon that they are selling faulty products to customers. Amazon has also faced lawsuits about terrible working conditions by employees. This could raise the question if Amazon is running a moral business model. Amazon is quickly becoming a monopoly and if they take too much power of the market, there could be an expectation that Amazon will face more legal trouble.
Class of 2023
Dominick is a Sport Management major at Seton Hall University, School of Business with a Criminal Justice minor.
https://www.retaildive.com/news/amazon-and-williams-sonoma-settle-legal-battle-over-ip/588373/
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