Dear Sir or Madam, Thank you for inquiring about the removal of suspected infringing items and materials from our site. If you are an intellectual property owner (e.g. owner of a patent, registered utility model or design, trade mark) or copyright owner and you find an infringement of your rights on our site, we encourage you to join our Verified Rights Owner (Verifizierte Rechteinhaber - VeRi) Program that was created to help intellectual property owners protect their rights by facilitating and simplifying the searching, reporting and removal of infringing items on our site. If you are not an intellectual property owner you may report infringing items to our Community Watch program under http://cgi3.ebay.de/awcgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ReportInfringing. You can join the VeRI program by filling in, signing and sending to us the form “Notice of Infringement” (e.g. via fax to 0049 30 801 962 81). As soon as we are in receipt of this form we will give you a special email address that you can use for further notices of infringements. We ensure that your emails are processed in a timely fashion by our qualified staff. For that purpose please use the VeRI form you receive together with the email address so the amount of queries can be reduced to a minimum. In the case that an auction is ended upon your request, eBay will notify both the seller and all bidders of the reason for ending the auction. We also provide them with your name, address and email address. In this way, the involved parties can refer to you directly in order to clarify the issue. We also encourage you to create an eBay “About Me” page (http://pages.ebay.de/help/myinfo/usr-about.html) that will provide your identifying information and answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) about your products and infringement policies. A link to this site will be attached to the notification message to the seller and the bidder with the highest bid. This helps reduce the amount of queries from the involved parties. We look forward to welcoming you as a member of our VeRI program. In case there are any remaining questions in relation to the VeRI program or the way we treat infringing items on our sites, please write an email to hinweis@ebay.de.
Notice of Infringement – VeRI-Program
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eBay International AG - VeRI-Programm – Marktplatz 1 14532 Europarc Dreilinden Deutschland Fax: 0049-(0)30-80196-281
This Notice of Infringement form needs to be filled in by the rights owner. By signing the form, the rights owner CERTIFIES UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY that they are the owner of the rights as detailed below and that the information and declaration given in this form and attachments are correct. The undersigned deposits the form with eBay and also agrees for eBay to present this affidavit to a court or a public authority if necessary. As provided for in German criminal law, there is severe punishment for those who wrongly certify under penalty or perjury. In the case that wrong information is given in this form and the form is presented to a court or a public authority, criminal investigations as a result of false declaration in lieu of an oath can take place regardless whether the wrong information was given intentionally or negligently (§§ 156, 163 of the German Criminal Act). For that reason caution should be taken in filling in this form. 1. I, Name First Name Company Position Postal Code Street City Tel. Nr. Fax Nr. Email _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________
, am the owner of the intellectual property rights (as listed in the attachment “list of Intellectual Property Rights and infringing items”) and ask for the auctions as shown in the attachment to be ended. 2. The attachment “list of Intellectual Property Rights and infringing items” is part of this declaration
3. The ! sale or ! the presentation or ! the attributes of the offer of the auction item as described in the attachment has not been authorized by the owner of the intellectual property right nor from any other entitled person and hence is a violation of the rights as laid out in the attachment.
4. I authorize the following to make notification on my behalf: a) ___________________________________________________________ Name Address ____________________________________________________________ Tel. Fax email
b) ____________________________________________________________ Name Address ____________________________________________________________ Tel. Fax email
c) ____________________________________________________________ Name Address ____________________________________________________________ Tel. Fax email
I hereby declare that all information stated in this form is true and complete.
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Attachment List of intellectual property rights and infringing items
Name of the Rights Owner:____________________________________ 1. Intellectual Property Rights (e.g. copyright, patent, trademark): _______________________________________________________
2. In the case of a registered intellectual property right (e.g. copyright, trademark) please provide the registration number of the respective authority: No.:_________________________________________________ Registering authority:___________________________________
3. eBay Auction-No. (e.g. 45630533):________________________
4. Criteria / Description / Explanation of the infringement (e.g. In the upper right corner you can see the following________/ we never released or produced a product containing this___________)
I hereby declare that the information given in this list is true and complete.
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