Where's That From?

Find out where Amazon products are coming from

About

The market is currently being flooded with cheap Chinese imitation products of lower quality. It is often unclear where a product is coming from. This plugin attempts to alleviate that by pulling the seller information and trademark (if available). The information is then presented above the Buy box.

This plugin uses the seller information, brand name, and trademark information to attempt to determine where a product comes from.

The images on the right show two laser levels. The left one is a US product by Klein Tools. The one on the right is a Chinese product which boasts similar capabilities at a fraction of the cost.

Heuristics

  • Trademark lookup
  • Company name lookup
  • Brand name
  • Seller address

 

Install

You can install this plugin from our page on the Firefox Add-On site: Install

Configure

The plugin initially is not configured for trademark searches. This is due to the fact that the product name must be sent to our servers to perform the search.

Enabling trademark searches allows us to use the US Patent and Trademark information to lookup owner information for the brand.

To enable this feature, go to the plugin configuration settings and check the box next to "Fetch trademark data (external)" and click Save.

Privacy

By default, this plugin processes all information locally in your browser.

If configured to use trademark data, the product name will be sent to the Where's That From server to perform the trademark search. Your information is not logged or stored beyond what is necessary to perform the lookup. Once processing is complete,that information no longer exists on the server.

Your information is never stored, sold, or shared with any other entity.

Limitations

This plugin makes a best-effort guess at where a product comes from. There is no guarantee that this guess is accurate.

Data is pulled from the US Patent and Trademark office, which does report when foreign entities are involved in a trademark's application process. However, the trademark office is not informed when a company is bought by a foreign company.

This can be seen when looking up companies like the Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation. The company was originally American, but was later sold to Techtronic Industries which is in Hong Kong.

 

Intended to only work for amazon.com and not other country specific versions of Amazon.

 

Only Firefox is supported currently.