"The last 10 years have seen a huge growth in the number of IP lawyers employed in firms and in-house," he said.

“过去10年里企业和事务所聘请的知识产权律师的数量剧增，”他说。

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Both firms are prominent in China's market for international IP counsel.

两家律所都是中国市场上杰出的国际姿势产权法律顾问。

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Under this "old" model of intellectual property (IP), biotech firms raced to file a "fortress" of patents around newly discovered genes, closing off avenues of research for their competitors.

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Some copyright owners in Europe and the US are using IP addresses gathered by monitoring firms to apply for court orders obliging internet service providers to hand over the physical addresses associated with them.

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Do these mammoth firms encroach willfully on IP because they feel it can be done with impunity?

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