If Hong Kong does want to encourage technological innovation, it might do best to enforce intellectual property laws.
Not every scheme to evade intellectual property laws is so subtle.
This led Prime Minister David Cameron to promise last year that Britain's intellectual property laws would be reviewed "to make them fit for the internet age".
Experts said the FTC's case rests on whether Intel's dominance of the PC chip industry is so great that antitrust law should take precedence over the intellectual property laws that Intel says should govern its behavior.
As countries with weak intellectual-property laws tighten them up (India did this year), their generics firms will join the world market, too.
According to my ninth book, Capital Rising, co-authored with Srini Rangan, the EE consists of four key elements: transparent and efficient financial markets, reliable and effective corporate governance systems, human capital development systems, and clear and supportive intellectual property protection laws.
They returned with recommendations that included joining the World Trade Organization, passing laws to protect intellectual property, improving the telecom infrastructure, changing 25 laws to make doing business easier and beefing up the education system.
China, for instance, passed new laws on intellectual property in July.
Moreover, these actions can trigger lots of other laws (particularly if botnets are involved), such as intellectual property, spam, fraud, contract, and tort laws.
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The First Amendment lawyers in attendance pointed out that the laws protecting our intellectual property are much stronger than those protecting our reputations.
They list investor protection, intellectual property, and inadequate or inconsistent laws and regulations as areas of particular concern in many Asian and Latin American countries.
They came back with recommendations that included joining the World Trade Organization, passing laws to protect intellectual property, improving the telecom infrastructure and beefing up the education system.
We chose the four places because they have adequate laws on the protection of intellectual property.
To the extent that the industry has concerns, they are mostly about weak laws protecting, say, intellectual property, which could hurt small chip designers now setting up shop.
The web gangsters were not upset with proposed new laws but with efforts to protect intellectual property.
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It is completely reasonable for these industries to seek laws that will protect their valuable intellectual property and give them the tools they need to combat piracy and other abuses.
The European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee has made repeated calls for new laws, as a way of creating a single market for intellectual property.
The United States has long accused India of dragging its feet on introducing intellectual property rights, and sought assurances in the last round of trade talks that India would pass laws that would enforce US copyright laws in India.
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