Many law and security firms have created electronic specialities to deal with the potential loss of everything from highly protected trade secrets, to credit card theft.
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Once dominated by poorly managed and inefficient state-run firms that were protected behind trade barriers, now it is globally integrated and profitable.
Combined with the Gewerbesteuer, a court-protected local trade tax, this has meant that politicians are limited in their ability to respond to tax competition without losing revenue.
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In the 21st Century economy, intangible assets like intellectual property comprise an increasing percentage of corporate valuation, making it imperative that these assets are protected in any new trade deal.
With regard to the problem of poaching of and illicit trade in endangered and protected wildlife and living marine resources, ASEAN welcomed U.S. support in combating illicit trade in wildlife, and both sides agreed to explore future cooperation in this area.
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Bebchuk's study finds that companies where executives are protected by golden parachutes generally trade at lower levels than those where CEOs don't have them.
It should mean that the imports we desire, the whole point of trade, are protected from the interference of local producers who would benefit from their absence.
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Most of France's trade with America is protected by international rules.
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But down in the detail there were complex issues surrounding which elements of a design (in the form factor, in usability, and in what was called the trade dress) were truly protected by law.
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Companies claimed that the formulas they used were trade secrets and needed to be protected.
The bathtub was the 9-block area of the World Trade Center site at bedrock, that was protected by the slurry wall.
When competition is restricted due to trade barriers, the only winners are the protected companies who make up the domestic industry.
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Frail hopes rest on a meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora in Geneva next month, at which America may perhaps argue for a ban on trade in endangered species where tigers are not protected.
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Even when pressed last Friday morning on the "Today" show about why he wasn't talking about his executive record, Gore didn't take the gimme moment in front of 6 million viewers about welfare reform, a balanced budget, free-trade agreements, low crime rates and newly protected wilderness areas.
Despite years of decline, steel remains one of the most protected and subsidised industries in America, and one of the main irritants in global trade negotiations, weakening American arguments for open markets elsewhere.
The agreement will remove almost all trade barriers and tariffs both in products and services, including in the h highly protected agricultural sector.
Consumer information, employee records, proprietary and trade secret information, and intellectual property are all available for the taking if infrastructures are not properly protected and contingency plans developed should a breach occur.
In addition, the monopolies that have protected many oldsters will take time to dismantle, even with the backing of the liberalising agreement negotiated by the World Trade Organisation earlier this year.
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