Internationally renowned motorcycle brand defends rights again, seller's store is frozen, affecting over 500,000 products

It is reported that at the end of March, the KTM motorcycle brand represented by HSP Law Firm once again launched a trademark protection case. This is the company's fifth case that month, and each time a large number of sellers are affected.

KTM is an Austrian manufacturer of motorcycles, bicycles and mopeds. It originally specialized in metal processing. It has been manufacturing motorcycles since 1954 and is famous for manufacturing off-road motorcycles. In recent years, it has also begun to get involved in the manufacture of general street motorcycles and sports cars, while also producing parts and motorcycle clothing.

This time, KTM's rights protection efforts are quite strong, and it strives to crack down on sellers who sell counterfeit products and misuse its registered trademarks. Some sellers' PayPal has been frozen, and some sellers have not been unfrozen even after a month of settlement, and their stores are still frozen.

Most of the five cases involving KTM were related to trademark protection. Whenever the word “KTM” appeared in a product title or product image , it would cause trouble .

According to the query results of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, KTM has registered multiple trademarks for the word "KTM", and the goods and services involved cover various types of motorcycles, bicycles, power-assisted bicycles and their accessories, related event organizations, clothing, leather products, maintenance services , etc.

In other words, not only sellers of auto parts need to be more careful, but even sellers of clothing, shoes and hats should be careful to avoid "KTM", and it is best not to have this keyword appear on the product details page.

In addition, it should be noted that KTM cases are generally trademark infringements, and product links with the words "For KTM" may also bring infringement risks . One seller complained: "We are For KTM, isn't this trademark abuse? Just sue, it's disgusting."

Many sellers also reported that PayPal was frozen, but no case number was displayed in the background, and they did not receive any notification from the law firm until the law firm issued a preliminary injunction.

As of 9 a.m. on April 14, the editor searched for "KTM" as the keyword on eBay and still received more than 540,000 search results. The search results on AliExpress also exceeded 50,000, while the search results on Amazon were only 154.

The above-mentioned KTM cases have not yet released the list, and it is recommended that all sellers do not sell any KTM-related products. Now there are sellers who have unfortunately won the bid, and the sellers who have survived by chance must not be careless, but still pay attention to check their product titles and listing descriptions, and remove related products in time to avoid being involved in copyright infringement.

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