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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
http://pages.ebay.co.uk/vero/index.html
If you have a word that is a trademark you can have listings removed if they use that word even if it has become a generic term like "hoover" or "biro". I had some 1970s Hells Angels books removed a few years ago, and more recently some bean-bag toys because I described them as "beanies" (which is a trademark).
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Thanks. Hadn't come across that.
Wouldn't it be fairer to say, though, that the people who are "abusing" VERO are those who post auctions for fake goods, pirated software, etc, on eBay, not the rights-holder who are simply protecting their IP? Goodness knows, if you look on eBay, it's easy enough to find such listings which are clearly blatantly illegal.