On June 25, Amazon announced that this year's Prime Day will be held on July 16-17. The long-awaited promotion is coming, listing must not be lost, recently there are a number of hot product patents under urgent certification, affecting pets, lamps, toys and other categories, a little inattentive will step on the thunder ~
Pet products
Pet products can be described as a collection of sales and minefields in one, is one of the most popular categories of Prime Day each year, but also the worst area of infringement, not only often have products sued for infringement, patent layout is also very hot.
According to incomplete statistics, there are as many as a dozen patents issued on June 25 alone, involving pet toys, pet feeders, pet beds and other products, and some of the appearance patents queried:
Pay special attention to patents that are granted faster or take a longer time, and the probability of safeguarding their rights is relatively high:
Lighting products
Lighting products have always been "off-season is not light, the peak season is more prosperous", and the patent layout is also so, almost every new patent under the license there are many lighting products. This time is no exception, desk lamps, floor lamps, solar lamps and other products have patents authorized:
Observation found that there are a lot of melt wax lamp patents under the recent certification, and there have been melt wax lamp products in the patent under the patent quickly issued rights protection, have to prevent!
▼Patent granted on March 12, infringement sued on April 10, case No. 24-cv-2874
▼Some appearance patent of wax melting lamp
Toy product
Like pet products, toy products are both hot sales and infringement areas, many products have been sued for infringement, such as water balloons, toy water balloons, flip octopus, Snapperz squeeze toys, etc., each time there are a large number of sellers suffer.
Recently, there are a lot of toy appearance patents, and toy sellers need to pay attention to avoid:
Summer hot product
With the arrival of the hot summer, cooling products ushered in the sales peak, such as fans, ice cube molds, etc., many products on Amazon have sold more than 1,000 or even millions of products, and have rushed to achieve explosive orders before the arrival of Prime Day.
Recently, there are many appearance patents under the certification of these two products, and the risk of infringement is very high. If you are selling related products, it is recommended to do a good patent investigation ~
▼fan
▼Ice cube mold
These are some of the products recently patented, which can be called the crisis. Patents and products are directly linked, infringement is almost a quasi, it is recommended that sellers must do a good job in the selection of products or sales.
How to judge appearance patent infringement?
The judgment criteria of appearance patent infringement are generally similar, that is, whether the general public will mistake the product involved for a patented product through comparison. If it is easy to misidentify, the infringement risk is high. In short, if the product you sell is highly similar to the appearance patent mentioned above, there is a possibility of infringement.
In addition, judging the appearance of patent infringement in addition to looking at whether the product appearance is highly similar, but also pay attention to the application date of the patent, if the product link listing date before the public application date of the other party's patent infringement is controversial.
Advice to avoid infringement
1. Whether it is a new product that is planned to be put on the shelves or a relatively hot product (no matter how long it is sold), it is necessary to do a good job of patent search and avoid selling products that are highly similar to others' appearance patents;
2. If you have a good idea, good technology or method, you must register a patent as soon as possible, not only to ensure your own rights and interests in the event of infringement disputes, but also to prevent malicious squatting.
