However, East Asia leads the charge with a clear strategy to reposition its industrial powerhouses at the heart of the clean tech revolution with both intellectual property and manufacturing might.

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But, under pressure from key European allies, Bush appears poised to continue blocking suits by U.S. citizens against those who have benefited from property seized by Cuba following the 1959 revolution.

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On June 20, 2011 a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision demonstrating the way in which the U.S. legal system continues to struggle with the digital revolution, a revolution that is undermining securities regulation, intellectual property law, and even the basics of tort law.

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