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Article: Food for thought.(POINT OF VIEW; intellecutal property violations)(Brief article)
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- Revista Latin Trade
- Article date:
- February 1, 2006
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A toy vendor wanders near a beach resort in Imbassai, Bahia state, Brazil, his body obscured by a veritable who's who of inflatable toys: SpongeBob SquarePants. a Power Ranger, Odie of Garfield fame and Winnie the Pooh are joined by a clownfish not unlike Nemo (although green, not orange). Judging from the low quality of the designs, these are probably knockoffs made in China and imported by the thousands. An October 2005 study by U.S. economic advisors Robert Shapiro and Kevin Hassett put the value of just U.S. intellectual property at US$5 trillion, a third of total stock market value of all U.S. equities (of which an unknown amount, although surely billions, is stolen ...