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14 May 2009 by Jeff Hayes.
Not the traditional playground of security personnel but for many companies, ensuring the integrity of their intellectual property can be a make or brake situation. Just about every company has some form of IP. It could be a physical product, a software application, a process or procedure. Protecting it in a global economy is paramount.
A friend of mine manufactures a range of consumer-oriented products. One day, one of his kids said while their were in a public place, “dad, this is one of your’s.” My friend looked closer and it was a knock-off of his product from China, installed and used right here in America, about 15 miles from his manufacturing plant.
The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) is an agency that negotiates directly with foreign governments to create trade agreements, resolve disputes and participate in global trade policy organizations. It recently released (leaked) a summary of the key elements of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. To a large extent, almost all of the negotiations have been behind closed doors over the past two plus years.
New to this agreement are items dealing with Internet-based content, including the criminalization of copyright infringement even in cases where there is no profit motive. It will interesting to see what is required in the areas of copyright enforcement, policing a end user behavior, and how information will be shared (if any) between service providers, businesses and government agencies.
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