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Lew Clayton Publishes Intellectual Property Litigation Column
August 11, 2008 Full PDF
Litigation partner Lew Clayton's column, "Tiffany v. eBay" appeared in the August 11 issue of The National Law Journal. The article discuses a recent decision of Judge Richard Sullivan of the Southern District of New York, rejecting the claim of jewelry manufacturer Tiffany that eBay was secondarily liable for infringement of Tiffany's trademarks on eBay's auction web site. Among other holdings, the court ruled that eBay did not have to block the sale of Tiffany-branded items unless it had knowledge of specific counterfeit offerings. The article goes on to discuss the implications of the ruling for the law of trademark infringement.