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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
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A specimen is a real-world example of how the mark is actually used on the goods or in the offer of services. Labels, tags, or containers for the goods are considered to be acceptable specimens of use for a trademark. For a service mark, specimens may be advertising such as magazine advertisements or brochures. Actual specimens, rather than facsimiles, are preferred.
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Derivative work is based on modified preexisting works to which the copyright owner has the exclusive rights to. The piece of work resulting from derivative work, considered as a whole may be separately copyrightable.
Intellectual Property
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This refers to intangible property rights such as copyright, patents and trademarks that provide the owner with certain exclusive rights.
Trademark
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Trademarks protect words, designs, symbols or phrases used as slogans, names or logos for products or organizations.
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