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Amazon will not remove this Intellectual Property Complaint

Hi there,

Last month we had a notification from Amazon that a handful of our listings received some sort of product policy compliance issues.
They were all from the same brand “Chord” and we sorted all but one out.

It is listed as an “Intellectual Property Complaint”.
The other 3 listings we’ve already fixed were listed as “Trademark Infringement”.

A bit of context as to why these flagged up in the first place:
The rights owner (Chord) is basically trying to get a better representation of their brand on Amazon.
Currently, a lot of their products have been incorrectly listed under the brand “Chord & Major”.
The reason these policy issues triggered was because Chord had tried changing the brand name on a few listings.

For whatever reason Amazon were happy to remove the 3 listed under “Trademark Infringement” but this final one won’t go away!

I’ve been conversing with Chord directly and they have asked Amazon to remove the claims on our account (and a few other resellers who I have talked to and know are also affected by this one ASIN) but Amazon seem to not be budging.

I’ve sent over Invoices, a letter of authenticity and as I said above, Chord have reached out directly to no avail.

Does anyone have any advice on what to do here?
I don’t know what Amazon wants anymore and they keep sending me back the same email asking me for the same stuff I’ve already provided.

Cheers,
Ben

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Most helpful replyThis reply was marked most helpful by the original poster.

To close this one out, Amazon finally accepted a new Letter of Authorisation we sent them.

Ended up being really silly on our part. Didn’t put “Ltd” at the end of our company name in the letter so I suppose they thought the letter was addressed to a different company (that resides at the same address)…

Learning for anyone else who may have a similar issue in the future:
Make sure absolutely everything is exact. Even with correct proof of name, address and even merchant token, if one thing is slightly off, you’ll get it declined.

It would’ve been nice to actually receive a human response from Amazon instead of the same copy pasted email or explaining why their reasoning changed half way through but I guess that’s just the way it has to be.

Thanks @The_Little_Shop for all the suggestions here. Your time and input is much appreciated.

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Seller_7VbclcPFFRTnc

They need to write a retraction letter with your merchant token number and email it to
notice-retraction@amazon.co.uk

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Seller_zSgC5zKFELg5A

Hello @Soundcraft_Hi-Fi,

Thank you for reaching out to us!

We understand that you have concern regarding your intellectual properly complaints as per the above post.

By referring to the thread, it is observed that you consider this to be a false claim.

For such a policy violation, when flagged you need to submit the required documents as mentioned below:

Letter of authorization or licensing agreement from Rights owner’s brand or manufacturer must appear on the letter of authorization or licensing agreement.

The letter of authorization or licensing agreement must come from the rights owner or the brand if the reporter was an agent.

OR

You need to provide a retraction letter form right owner directly as suggested by @The_Little_Shop above. Thank you so much for your input @The_Little_Shop.

if you’re unable to come up with these documents. You should submit a plan of action covering three aspects which are as follows

Root Cause: What led to the violation? What knowledge gap have you observed? Etc.

Corrective Actions: Your immediate steps taken in this regard to resolve the issue

Preventative Steps: Your future plans on how you will be ensuring the violation is avoided.

If you are stating that you will ensure not to violate amazon’s policy in future then what are the necessary steps you are going to take? How will you ensure? Do you have any new listing procedure?

What resources you will be referring to before creating the listing? Is your staff well aware of the policies? Do you have any training program me or improvement plan in mind to ensure such violations do not occur?

Also, you have mentioned that you have identified the issue that caused the violation of your patent policy. Hence, I would advise to kindly mention in the root cause of your plan of action.

Root cause, Corrective actions and Preventative measure should be in alignment.

Further, I would recommend you to go through our plicy regarding intellectual property:

https://sellercentral-europe.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/G201361070

I hope this resolves your query. Please continue to post on the thread if you have any questions around this.

Regards,
Nehal

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Seller_nRuLfEL5qKgSk

Some more information now too. Apparently my listing was not deactivated because of Chord.

Jake at Chord has had his request statuses changed to “Not Accepted” and received this from Amazon explaining why:

Now i’m not sure why Amazon have changed their reason as the original email I received as to why my listing was removed clearly stated that it was a report from the rights owner (Jake / Chord) and also gave me his email address saying I should ask him to retract it if it was in error.

So now as far as i’m concerned, Amazon are straight up changing their reasoning and lying to me…

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Seller_nRuLfEL5qKgSk
Most helpful replyThis reply was marked most helpful by the original poster.

To close this one out, Amazon finally accepted a new Letter of Authorisation we sent them.

Ended up being really silly on our part. Didn’t put “Ltd” at the end of our company name in the letter so I suppose they thought the letter was addressed to a different company (that resides at the same address)…

Learning for anyone else who may have a similar issue in the future:
Make sure absolutely everything is exact. Even with correct proof of name, address and even merchant token, if one thing is slightly off, you’ll get it declined.

It would’ve been nice to actually receive a human response from Amazon instead of the same copy pasted email or explaining why their reasoning changed half way through but I guess that’s just the way it has to be.

Thanks @The_Little_Shop for all the suggestions here. Your time and input is much appreciated.

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Hi @Soundcraft_Hi-Fi,

We appreciate your understanding and continuous effort to resolve the issue and finally Amazon team accepted your document.

Thanks @The_Little_Shop for your help and support.

For any kind of further assistance, you may contact Seller Support team by clicking on help option in the seller central, and you may use the link given below.
https://sellercentral-europe.amazon.com/help/hub/support/browse-GB-your_account-other_account_issues

Thanks for reaching out to us.

Regards,
Danii

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