WTO’s China Piracy Ruling: All Bark And No Bite
27 01 2009Washington claimed a tactical victory in its intellectual property case against China, but it is losing the war.
By Tina Wang
Forbes
In its efforts to get China to curb piracy, the United States claims that it now has the World Trade Organization on its side. But the proclamation of victory is empty or premature, or both.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said Monday that the WTO had ruled in its favor, judging that in certain respects, China’s policing of pirated goods constitutes a breach of its treaty obligations. But the WTO actually demurred on the segment of the U.S. complaint that contained the most bite: that China does not provide enough criminal sanction against counterfeiters.
Read the rest:
http://www.forbes.com/2009/01/27/china-wto-pira
cy-markets-equity-0127_markets2.html?feed=r
ss_markets
The content in this post was found at http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/atom.xml and was not authored by the moderators of freeforafee.com. Clicking the title link will take you to the source of the post.
