Amazon Offers Intellectual Property Protection For Businesses In India

Amazon has unveiled its Intellectual Property Accelerator programme, which is aimed at providing access to sellers, to their legal services.

Amazon, the e-commerce giant on Sunday unveiled its Intellectual Property Accelerator or IP Accelerator programme, which is aimed at providing access to sellers, especially those who are also owners of brands, to services provided by legal experts. This access, a statement by Amazon added, will help the sellers to secure trademark protection for their brands as well as from infringement mainly on Amazon websites across the country. The IP Accelerator programme is already available in Europe and the United States, it added. Mary Beth Westmoreland, vice-president, technology, brand protection at Amazon, said the IP Accelerator programme is already available in the US, Europe and Canada.