California Court Sides With Amazon in Tre Milano Infringement Case

A California judge has ruled in favor of Amazon.com in a case involving the sale of counterfeit merchandise on its marketplace, reaffirming the ruling of a lower court and denying the injunction that the plaintiff was seeking. At issue were sales of a hair-straightening iron called the InStyler made by a California company called Tre Milano, which alleged that knock-offs of the product were rampant on Amazon's marketplace pages, and claimed that on at least one occasion, Amazon itself had sold a counterfeit product.