EBay’s efforts to block the sale of luxury counterfeits on the auction site is on a fast track to obsolescence, said Deputy General Counsel Mary Huser on Wednesday.
A pair of rulings last summer made the issue seem red-hot. First, a French commercial court ruled that eBay owed $63 million in damages to LVMH (maker of Louis Vuitton goods, among other luxury labels) for failing to adequately police its site for fakes. Then, two weeks later, Manhattan federal Judge Richard Sullivan came to the opposite conclusion.
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