Funds held by temporary restraining order from IP rights holder
Has anyone ever had a US account that had its funds frozen because a rights holder subpoenaed amazon for seller information and had a court ordered temporary restraining order issued for funds in the accounts at the same time?
I'm just wondering what the process was or how it worked out? I did some searching but this seems like a pretty unique situation.
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Re: Funds held by temporary restraining order from IP rights holder
Maybe. We never sold anything having to do with this rights holder though. Trying to appeal my way out of it but this doesn't seem like the typical review from Seller Performance. I am pretty much figuring the funds are gone. Can't find the lawsuit filed in King County though so I don't know how else to find it.
Re: Funds held by temporary restraining order from IP rights holder
Nothing. No product ASIN's provided in the complaint. I can't seem to figure out what they are trying to get us on. All I know is it looks like the IP filed a lawsuit against amazon and asked for a litigation hold on the named sellers funds. Emailing has generated nothing.
Re: Funds held by temporary restraining order from IP rights holder
What is the expiration date on the temporary restraining order? This does not require any judgement. Just a complaint, a decent attorney and a judge.
Typically, it expires and the funds are released law suit or not but to get it released early will require a hearing with the judge. At least that is my limited one time experience not related to amazon.
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OOoo, hope all goes well guitarca18. I had 2900 dollars held by Amazon one time. They actually paid me 90 days later. Hope all goes well, but then again, this isn't too stealth in that you have a tax id on there.
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True but its hard to get anything off the tax id. If they did their diligence on that they'd be chasing backwards through multiple shell LLC's until they eventually found me. Most people wouldn't go that far back up the chain.