[…] The UAE has made the protection of intellectual property a priority in recent years. The year 2002 was critical as far as intellectual property rights (IPR) goes — with improved legislation including copyright, patent and trademark laws. IPR legislation is important to countries interested in signing free trade agreements (FTAs) with the United States. The United States is trying to secure a bilateral FTA with the UAE as part of its drive to patch together an overall U.S.-Middle East FTA by 2013.

[…] The UAE has made the protection of intellectual property a priority in recent years. The year 2002 was critical as far as intellectual property rights (IPR) goes — with improved legislation including copyright, patent and trademark laws.
IPR legislation is important to countries interested in signing free trade agreements (FTAs) with the United States. The United States is trying to secure a bilateral FTA with the UAE as part of its drive to patch together an overall U.S.-Middle East FTA by 2013.

[…] Ethiopia has mobilized its media, schools, judicial and law enforcement agencies, as well as commercial, cultural, artistic and scientific groups to press home the need for intellectual property (IP) protection to develop the country’s economy. When the Ethiopian government grasped the importance of intellectual property rights.

[…] “The United States will continue to monitor to ensure that Russia moves to implement a variety of legal and law enforcement improvements to which it committed as part of a bilateral agreement with the United States on Russia’s accession to the WTO,” USTR said in releasing its annual Special 301 report to Congress. “Implementation of these commitments remains essential to completing the final multilateral negotiations on the overall accession package.”

[…] The speaker is David Chavern, the executive vice president and chief operating officer of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He spoke to reporters about the chamber's views on intellectual property protection before heading to Mumbai, India, to participate in the chamber's second annual Global Forum on Innovation, Creativity, and Intellectual Property, which took place February 26-27. The recording was made by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington February 19.

[…] David Chavern, the chamber's vice president; Murray Hiebert, of the chamber's Southeast Asia division; David Hirschman, president of the chamber's Global Intellectual Property Center; and Caroline Joiner, the center's executive director, spoke recently on the common interest of producers and users to protect IP. The key point, in the chamber's view, is that without IP protection, there is no incentive for innovation and, without innovation, there is no economic growth.

[…] La protezione della proprietà intellettuale ha rappresentato uno dei più importanti strumenti per lo sviluppo economico americano, e trova radici nella nostra costituzione. Personaggi che hanno avuto un ruolo fondamentale nella storia degli Stati Uniti, quali Jefferson e Franklin, uomini di governo ma anche di scienza, avevano capito sin da allora quanto fosse importante tutelare le opere dell’ingegno. E quanto fosse importante stimolare la creatività del proprio popolo.