I found some cool information on the
Alizila site, the blog that covers all things
Alibaba. Intellectual property is a huge issue between the United States and China right now and the post addresses the rights of small business owners who think that their products have been infringed upon. Not only is the post interesting, but there is a cool slide show courtesy of
Alibaba Australia.
Have a look:
Small business owners usually can't afford to keep a high-powered law firm on retainer, but when their intellectual property has been hijacked, there are steps they can take to protect themselves, according to Alibaba.com. The B2B website, a global online marketplace for tens of thousands buyers and sellers, finds itself occasionally mediating cases where a small, creative company selling online discovers photos of its designs have been appropriated by another vendor.
Like all major online marketplaces, Alibaba.com has an established process by which content owners can assert their intellectual property (IP) rights. AliProtect is the platform’s IP protection system. It allows an individual rights owner to file a claim for an alleged IP infringement on the site. As soon as the claim is verified, any illegitimate listings are immediately pulled down. All visitors to the site can claim infringement, regardless of registration, via AliProtect. (For more information on Alibaba.com’s reporting policies and procedures, click here:
http://legal.alibaba.com/complaintRule_en_US.html) The platform also provides an email to address these concerns (pic-copy@service.alibaba.com).Below are tips on how users can protect their photos on the net, provided by Alibaba.com in Australia.
The IP protection system of Alibaba is technically well set up. However, we have not had good experience with the enforcement of IP. As an example: One company has listed infringing products on Alibaba. Indeed the listings were removed within 3-5 days. But the infringing company was able to re-list the exact same products on the same day again. Within more than 3 months - until today - there has not been a single day where the infringing producs were not listed. A total of 322 listings on the same IP and by the same company were removed by Alibaba. But during that time there were no visible consequences for that company. For more information feel free to contact us: MT Derm GmbH, Germany, j.kluge@mtderm.de .
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