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Dec 22 2009 5:10pm EDT

Amazon Faces Another Lawsuit

TechFlash reports: Busy legal times for Amazon. The online retail giant is negotiating a settlement to a lawsuit over cracked Kindles. Now the company has been slapped with a lawsuit from a small electronics retailer called Sellify. Sellify is suing Amazon for trademark infringement and defamation, among other things, over Google search ads that paint Sellify as a "scam artist." The lawsuit alleges that an Amazon affiliate, not Amazon itself, is buying the ads, but argues that the affiliates are acting as Amazon's "de facto agents."


Eric Engleman writes for TechFlash, the Puget Sound Business Journal's technology blog.

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