However when the US first launched its challenge in June, Intellectual Property Office commissioner Tian Lipu was quoted by state media as saying that it was "not a sensible move for the US government to file such a complaint".
Consequently, his speech imperils the real interests that the US has in the region - first and foremost, the US's interest in securing its national security.
Research firm NPD Group listed Big Fish as the top casual digital retailer in the US in the first half of this year.
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The leak has given us the first glimpse at the Lumix GF6's full spec list, which include the same 16-megapixel sensor as the GX1, a new Venus engine to assist with imaging performance, an electrostatic touchscreen and (in a first for ILCs) built-in NFC .
The announcement came during a trade visit to the US by First Minister Alex Salmond.
The 14-minute-long video, which was made in the US, was first uploaded to the video-sharing site in July last year.
The Santa Clara facility will be the first US-based operation for FoxConn.
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Our content, unbeatable value for money and the instant nature of our service make us the first choice for people who want the best possible entertainment experience.
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This kind of tweaking, which gets very little media coverage, is among the three major reasons why the jobs report data misleads and confuses us the first Friday of every month.
Notable highlights in the ship's career have included the first construction mission to the ISS by a US orbiter, and the first servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
And the all-important surplus with the US climbed for the first time in five months, up 14.9% to 524.8bn yen.
The three-month period ending in January gave us the first big global market correction since 1998.
Chugach provides every single passenger with a state-of-the-art Mammut avalanche airbag pack, the first US heli operator I know of to do so, at no extra cost.
We kind of tweaked the interest of Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys, and he wanted to make us the first act that he produced on Brother Records, and we go in, and he writes two songs for us.
July 20th the market held the 50% retracement level proving demand for stocks and giving us the first higher low.
Maybe, but we wanted the clock to be ticking right at the beginning to focus us for the first critical months of company-building.
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The European conquest of Africa was 100 years off but Sir Joseph gave us the first glimpse of it.
Built to run on the company's quad-core Kal-El processor, it shows us the first example of true dynamic lighting on mobile devices and also throws in some impressive physics calculations like fully modeled cloth motion.
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ExpendaBelles is the brainchild (or bad idea, depending on your taste) of Millennium Films, which brought us the first two Expendables.
He had a memorable four-tournament run in 2003, when he won the Colonial and Memorial back-to-back and tied for third at the US Open before taking first at the Greater Milwaukee Open a month later.
There's no pricing yet for either of the microphone packs and the live broadcast didn't hit on whether the mic (or karaoke app) would appear outside of Japan -- but the US will still be first in the line for the console, which is now merely two weeks away.
Some 12 years after Sabrina's disappearance, a warrant was issued for Bebb-Jones' arrest in the US for murder in the first degree, concealing death and domestic violence.
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If the global economy is going to thrive in 2013, it needs all the forward momentum it can get from the US, especially in the first few months.
In Russia, another important growth market, where the phones launched a day earlier than the US, sales in the first were days have been estimated at 15, 000, a record for the country, say local analysts.
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One mother of two who did not wish to be identified used the over-the-counter allergy and motion-sickness medicine Phenergan for a recent flight from Australia to the US. She said the first eight hours of the flight were "agony" and that she used the medication as a last resort to help her three-year-old daughter sleep.
"He gave us a good talk before the game which did us good - for the first 20 minutes we threw everything at them, " said Moody.
In his Senate approval hearings during the Bush administration, Gates became the first senior US official to state publicly that Israel had a nuclear arsenal.
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Ramsay, 23, who played alongside Mickelson in the Masters in April, became the first British US Amateur champion in 95 years when he beat American John Kelly at Hazeltine National in August 2006.
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Mr Obama, who was senator for Illinois and lived in Chicago before his election to the White House, will be the first sitting US president to take on such a direct role in an Olympic bid.
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