Worn, we suspect, by the kind of people who refuse to touch the doors of public toilet cubicles without some kind of hand protection.
"Some of the guns are for hunting and some are for protection, the hand guns, " Henke Pistorius is quoted as telling a Telegraph reporter.
As we discuss in this third post on the subject, just as IPR protection and innovation go hand in hand, so does capital and innovation.
The regulation currently being discussed in the context of the future European General Data Protection Regulation, whereby a maximum fine of 2% of a company's annual turnover is provided for, would, on the other hand, enable violations of data protection laws to be punished in a manner that would be felt economically.
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At the same time, the house opposite his relatives in Little Havana shows a huge picture of the child in the sea, grasping an inner tube, surrounded by porpoises protecting him from the terrors of the deep, with the Virgin Mary behind him and the hand of God stretching down in protection.
Bush's lawyer argued that the lack of a standard for hand-counting ballots violates the equal protection clause of the Constitution.
In public, he put up nary a fight, only agreed to hand over his stock with a price protection for himself if the company ultimately went for a higher price.
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Granderson took no more chances with future fractures, wearing an elbow guard and extra protection on the top of his hand.
Like many other data protection agencies it had requested Google hand over copies of the data it gathered to find out whether it breached privacy rules.
On the other hand, life at the other extreme of IP protection can be a lot worse.
"We have worked hand in hand with Hollywood to get some form of broadcast protection, " says Dave Arland, a spokesperson for Thomson Consumer Electronics (nyse: TMS - news - people ).
On the other hand, such systems do not always offer shoppers the protection that credit cards routinely provide against fraud (though this week PayPal said it would start reimbursing victims of some frauds).
Innovation and the protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) go hand in hand, and are two topics that come up frequently in discussions about China.
Martin Hoskins, a data-protection consultant, worries that intermediaries will encourage consumers to hand over large volumes of personal information without clear limits on its use.
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For consumers, there will be concerns about data protection and whether the principle aim in freeing up data is to hand it over to the marketing industry and profit from it.
On the one hand, there are the existing jobs, which still carry many of the perks, privileges and protection that Europe's labour market is famous for.
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