Hi everyone, I need quick advice.
I already submitted an appeal with product photos + a clear differences summary, and I contacted the rights owner multiple times, but no reply and the appeal was rejected. Amazon says the only options left are a Letter of Non-Infringement from an attorney or a court order. I’m based in the UK, selling on the USA marketplace.
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Has anyone successfully reinstated a listing using an attorney Letter of Non-Infringement (without a rights owner retraction)?
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For the future: How do you check if a product is patented if the listing doesn’t mention any patent? What’s your process/tools to avoid this risk before launching?
Thank you!
Yes, a US patent attorney’s Letter of Non Infringement can reinstate a listing without the owner’s retraction. To avoid risks, search USPTO, Google Patents, or use tools like PatSnap before launching.
Patent risk is difficult because sellers often do not know the patent number before launching.
Keyword searches can miss relevant patents. Visual/design searches can return many similar results, each with small differences. That still leaves the seller asking: “Is my product actually risky?”
For serious patent clearance, an IP attorney or professional patent search may still be needed.
But in practice, sellers cannot ask an attorney to review every new product before launch.
That is why a low-cost pre-listing risk review can be useful as an early screening step.
It does not replace legal clearance, but it can help sellers review the listing before publishing:
images,
title,
description,
product similarity,
claim wording,
and platform risk signals.
If risk is found, the seller can adjust the image direction, title wording, description, and safer version before launch, so they can reduce the risk as much as possible before the listing goes live.
This is the workflow ListingEscort is built for: a low-cost pre-listing check that helps sellers catch obvious risk signals before they spend time, ads, and inventory on a risky listing.