News this week: Last week, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
announced the removal of Alibaba
Group’s consumer-focused e-commerce platform, Taobao, from its list of “notorious
markets” of pirated and counterfeit goods.
The USTR’s annual report
names websites and physical venues “that have a negative impact on legitimate
businesses and industries of all sizes that rely on intellectual property to protect
their goods and services.”
In April this year, Alibaba hired James Mendenhall, a former
general counsel of the USTR, to aid its discussions with the U.S. government
and industry groups in an attempt to have Taobao removed from the list.
John Spelich, spokesman for Alibaba Group, commented, “We
would like to thank the USTR for the acknowledgment of our efforts. The IPR
issue is a long march in China, this is a milestone and it is only the
beginning.”
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