How much real intellectual commerce was there between Mr Menand's chosen four or is the Cambridge club a handy narrative device?

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New areas of businesses are opening up to Lloyd's that particularly suit its traditional skills in underwriting unusual risks, notably those tied to e-commerce and intellectual property.

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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in a statement, said India regularly failed to respect intellectual property rights in a range of industries.

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Some ask whether Stanford has struck the right balance between commerce and learning, between the acquisition of skills to make it and intellectual discovery for its own sake.

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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.

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