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24 January 2020TrademarksEdward Pearcey

Alibaba helps close over 2,000 illicit manufacturing facilities, says report

Alibaba Group’s intellectual property rights-protection efforts resulted in 1,045 IP-related leads being passed to law enforcement in 2019, and the closure of 2,029 facilities involved in the manufacturing and distribution of illicit goods, according to its annual Intellectual Property Rights report.

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