Third-party sellers from China and other countries are flooding Amazon with thousands of new brands, overwhelming the USPTO as applications soar for trademarks
How Amazon is causing us to drown in trademarks. — Maybe it's cold, and you need some winter gloves. Tweets: @abhabhattarai , @annehelen , and @profcarroll Tweets: Abha Bhattarai / @abhabhattarai : “Almost half of top Amazon sellers — those selling more than $1 million in the U.S. — are in China.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Anne Helen Petersen / @annehelen : Loved this @jwherrman piece on the weird-ass brands all over Amazon and how they're fundamentally changing the idea of brands, and shopping, and product: https://www.nytimes.com/... @profcarroll : Doubtful that brands as we know them will survive Bezos in the long run. https://twitter.com/...