If ratified, it proposes to improve "the enforcement of intellectual property rights" in participating countries.
The introduction of a US IP task force is part of the Justice Department broader initiative to improve the enforcement of intellectual property rights.
China has removed discriminatory procurement policies and it has agreed to strengthen enforcement of intellectual property rights in a number of very important ways.
This is especially true as the last decade has seen an explosion of vigorous enforcement of intellectual property rights, often in ways that fly in the face of the purpose of copyright to begin with.
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The enforcement of intellectual-property rights in China is a long-standing bugbear.
On trade secrets, again, I would refer you to the rollout later today that the OMB's Office of the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator will be releasing as part of the administration's strategy to mitigate the theft of U.S. trade secrets.
Assist the existing Office of the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC) in the drafting of an Administration wide strategic plan on IP enforcement.
Given continued concerns about the strength of intellectual property enforcement in China, do these patents represent significant technological breakthroughs?
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Now, part of the problem is we haven't gotten the kind of intellectual property enforcement in other countries that we need -- and so understandably businesses are wary about sending their products overseas just to be duplicated and then shipped back to us using lower-wage labor.
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The lack of strong intellectual property rights enforcement is troubling not just to foreign firms, but to Chinese innovators as well.
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"The Festo case has a much wider economic impact than Napster does, since many patents will no longer be capable of enforcement, " says Edward Fiorito, an intellectual-property lawyer in Dallas.
"The Festo case has a much wider economic impact than Napster does, since many patents will no longer be capable of enforcement, " says Edward Fiorito, an intellectual-property lawyer in Dallas, Texas.
According to the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, debates were intense and concerned mainly civil and criminal measures in cases of intellectual property rights infringements, border measures, enforcement of rights in the digital environment and the scope of application of the agreement.
And one Chinese official, the minister of commerce, one time he gave an estimate of about 500, 000 people involved in intellectual property enforcement in China.
The State Department will ensure that a consistent and "appropriate" message is delivered to foreign governments to communicate the administration's commitment to reducing the theft of intellectual property and the importance it places on more effective legal penalties and enforcement for trade-secret theft.
We commended past and on-going cooperation between ASEAN and the United States in the provision of technical assistance and capacity-building, the commitment by ASEAN to achieve effective intellectual property regimes and enforcement consistent with international standards and international agreements to which ASEAN Member States are parties, and cooperation in the enforcement against global intellectual property crime.
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