Isn't this just a market competition if other company's able to make cheaper product out of original idea and does not violate the law?
I was under impression that any product without an IP (copyright, patent, etc) is subject to "counterfeits" case like this.
p.s. I'm not a lawyer
The counterfeits are probably from China and China doesn't respect foreign IP, and they can probably open hundreds of shell businesses anyway so suing one or Amazon removing one will not help. Amazon has armies of lawyers and will argue they acted whenever they knew something was counterfeit, but as the website is automated they did not know ahead of time.
Counterfeit means it is violating trademark IP, meaning riding on the quality reputation of the brand while not meeting it.
Amazon is so bad at handling counterfeits that LVMH decided to never give even one penny to Amazon, so you cannot find their products on Amazon.
And the funny thing is that we cannot use AWS because of this rule!
I bet I can find plenty of counterfeit ones, though
Has there been any ruling on the applicability of trademark law to situations like this?
They need to know the counterfeits exist in the first place. Amazon doesn't even give the customer the option to mark their returns as counterfeits. This is why I suggest that if you encounter a counterfeit product on Amazon, you should document it and report it to the company whose product was counterfeited.