New Intellectual Property Rights Office Proposed

Readers of this list might be interested in this excerpt from the most recent NCC Washington Update <http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~ncc/>:

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4. Senator Stevens Proposes A New Intellectual Property Rights Office - The Senate Treasury and General Government Appropriations Bill includes a provision sponsored by Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) that calls on the Office of Management and Budget to develop a plan by February, 2000, for the establishment of an inter-agency National Intellectual Property Coordination Center. The Appropriations Committee noted that an estimated $18 billion in revenue is lost annually to the U.S. economy because of crimes involving the infringement of intellectual property, particularly violations -- many being foreign violations -- related to the computer and entertainment industries.

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Peter B. Hirtle
pbh6[_at_]cornell.edu Received on Fri Jul 09 1999 - 21:49:29 GMT