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Intellectual Property Protection Policy and Infringement Claims

12ShowU.Net respects the intellectual property rights of others, and we expect our users to do the same. We have instituted the following procedures to facilitate cooperation between 12ShowU.Net and you in protecting your intellectual property rights:

  • Voluntary daily review and removal by 12ShowU.Net of listings that appear to offer infringing items
  • Prompt removal of such listings where an appropriate intellectual property infringement claim is filed by intellectual property rights owners against the user of 12ShowU.Net's service who submitted such listings
  • Written notification to users submitting infringing listings that the items are prohibited on the 12ShowU.Net website and are thereby removed
  • Written notification to users whose listings are claimed to infringe the intellectual property rights of others, and provision of an opportunity to respond to such charges
  • Termination, when appropriate, of the accounts of users of the 12ShowU.Net service who appear to be repeat infringers.

12ShowU.Net is not an expert in your intellectual property rights, and we cannot verify that the users of our online marketplace - who post literally tens of thousands of trade leads for items on the 12ShowU.Net website each day - have the right to sell the goods offered.

We appreciate your assistance in identifying listings which may not appear on their face to infringe your rights but which you believe are infringing. 12ShowU.Net is also not an arbiter or judge of disputes about intellectual property rights.

By taking down a listing, as a prudential matter, 12ShowU.Net is not endorsing a claim of infringement.

Neither, in those instances in which 12ShowU.Net declines to take down a listing, is 12ShowU.Net determining that the listing is not infringing, nor is 12ShowU.Net endorsing the sale of goods in such cases.

We ask those who assert claims of infringement and ask 12ShowU.Net to stop others from listing trade leads on our marketplace to stand behind their claims.

By submitting a report of alleged infringement to 12ShowU.Net and asking 12ShowU.Net to take down a listing, you agree to indemnify 12ShowU.Net against claims or damages arising from the removal of the accused listing.

Procedures for reporting an alleged infringement to 12ShowU.Net:

  1. If you have a good faith belief that a listing on 12ShowU.Net infringes your copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property rights, you may report it to us.
  2. The completed Notice should specifically identify the vendor and claimed infringing product listing (i.e., product description, model number, etc.).
  3. Upon receipt of the Notice, we will promptly evaluate your complaint, and in cases where it appropriate, we will expeditiously take down the listing referred to in the Notice.
  4. We will notify the vendor in writing of the removal of the claimed infringing product listing and provide the vendor with your contact information so that the vendor may contact you directly and with an opportunity to respond.
  5. If the vendor objects to the removal of the alleged infringing product listing, the vendor may submit to us an appropriate counter-notice to dispute the claim.
  6. Upon receipt of such counter-notice, we may resume the vendor's listing unless we receive notice from you that an action has been filed against the vendor in a court of competent jurisdiction for infringement of your intellectual property rights.