Alibaba's brand protection efforts receive a boost as Cloud Sword Alliance expands

Intellectual-property task force Cloud Sword Alliance on Tuesday announced in a meeting in Hangzhou that it would further collaborate between the Chinese government and businesses, strengthen enforcement, step up IP protection awareness, training for law enforcement and push for greater responsibility among society at large.
The taskforce, originally set up by Alibaba together with five provincial and municipality governments in China, was created in 2016 to help the ecommerce giant and the auth