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Russian Intellectual Property Violations Must Be Addressed at G-8 Summit
Washington, DC— Congresswoman Watson today released a letter sent to President Bush requesting that he address Russia’s weak enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPR) at the upcoming Group of 8 Summit. The letter also urged the President to withhold his support for Russia’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WT0) until the nation takes appropriate steps to improve its IPR enforcement.
Representatives Tom Lantos (D-CA-12), Ranking Member of the House International Relations Committee, and Darrell Issa (R-CA-49) also signed the letter.
“The cost of Russian piracy in 2005 to the United States’ creative and patent community was over $1.7 billion, with losses topping $6.8 billion over the last five years,” wrote Congresswoman Watson. “We anticipate these costs would far outweigh the benefits of the liberalized trade that would come with Russia’s accession [to the WTO].” Read more at house.gov
Definition:
Allows a trademark owner to seek registration in any of the countries that have joined the Madrid Protocol by filing a single application.
Trade Secret
Definition:
Business information that is the subject of reasonable efforts to preserve confidentiality and has value because it is not generally known in the trade.
Novelty and prior art
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A trade secret may be a device or process which is patentable; but it need not be that. It may be a device or process which is clearly anticipated in the prior art or one which is merely a mechanical improvement that a good mechanic can make. Novelty and invention are not requisite for a trade secret as they are for patentability. These requirements are essential to patentability because a patent protects against unlicensed use of the patented device or process even by one who discovers it properly through independent research.
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