Belgian court EBay verdict mirrors Tiffany ruling on L’Oreal case
By Andrew Redfern @ 14th August 2008 1:25 pm
A Belgian court has given another ruling in favour of EBay in a case involving counterfeit good being sold on the online aunction giant. This time the case was brought by L’Oreal in five European nations, including Belgium, saying the company was not doing enough to prevent the fake goods being posted on its sites. The Belgian court is the first jurisdiction to return a judgement on the case.
According to an EBay spokesperson the court has ruled that the online auction site does not have “a general monitoring obligation” for it’s listings.
The spokesperson continued “The judge confirmed that eBay acted diligently when it received letters from L’Oreal, We cooperated by removing items L’Oreal complained about.”
There are still 4 seperate rulings to come in the various countries but this verdict, coming as it does on the back of the EBay / Tiffany verdict is setting a strong precedent.
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