If at some point Congress or the administration does pursue further intellectual property enforcement in legislation, trade agreements or other policy, the key first step should be a clear assessment of the scope and nature of the problem so that the policy is appropriate and makes sense.

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He said the US had made an "erroneous" assessment that was "outside the scope of reality".

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However, the NAO said ministers had "not decided upon its scope or methodology" and said the assessment had to be carried out "urgently".

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The pace and scope of that will depend on his assessment of how far we've come in achieving the goals that he set out.

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The FDA studies on the pharmacokinetics of BPA have gone where no assessment of an environmental chemical has ever gone before in terms of scope and sophistication.

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The NYPD's court papers also reveal for the first time the scope of the monitoring by its Demographics Unit, now called the Zone Assessment Unit.

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