This morning’s Observer column…

One of the more interesting news items of last week was the report that Tiffany and Company, the celebrated New York jeweller, is suing eBay, the online auction company, for ‘facilitating the sale of counterfeit goods’ over the internet. It turns out that undercover agents working for the company secretly bought 200 ‘Tiffany’ items in eBay auctions and found that three out of four were counterfeited. The case will go to trial in the US later this year…