"The Chinese government attaches great importance to intellectual property protection and has made great progress in areas like intellectual property legislation and enforcement," it said.
The new property legislation controlled it but also fostered it, by encouraging people to do whatever the law would let them get away with.
While Microsoft and Google have been occasional allies in Washington — they have worked together on intellectual property legislation and issues of open access — they clashed last year on legal and regulatory fronts.
When Mr. Sheekey, a former chief adviser to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, joined Mr. Bloomberg's company in 1997, he pushed Mr. Bloomberg to arrange more personal meetings with important Washington insiders, since the company had stakes in matters like intellectual property legislation and securities laws.
Jeremy Hunt's policy adviser, Adam Smith, was a regular political contact for News Corporation executives on policy issues from filesharing to James Murdoch's views on intellectual property legislation, according to evidence submitted to the Leveson inquiry by Rupert Murdoch on Thursday.
Kruger, who heads a worldwide effort to crack down on software piracy, says the U.S. has been a leader in intellectual property legislation and enforcement.
Chinese government officials are no fools; they know that innovation industries will have no place in China" if they don't enforce intellectual property legislation.
Given the recent comprehensive intellectual property legislation, the America Invents Act, no one was optimistic that there will be any broad redefinition of how the U.S. approaches intellectual property.
The way the industrial property information systems have developed, and are planned to continue to develop, in Lithuania since independence in 1990, the establishment of the State Patent Bureau in 1991 and the enactment of industrial property legislation is described.
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