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Intellectual Property rights are important for business to make R&D investments, but here's a strong opinion about the abuse of IP rights:

Your two pieces from Maria Cattaui and Pat Choate bemoaning the state of IP protection and the nations of scofflaws who are stealing people's ideas and getting away with billions are passionate, but about as monocular as you can get. At no point do either of your commentators acknowledge the fact that IP protections are broken and have been grossly abused by those who demand their protection.

Maria raises the spectre of contaminated knock-off drugs, without commenting on the egregious behaviour of the producers of Vioxx and Celebrex whose commitment to the profits generated by their precious IP transcends the lives of the people taking them, nor does she deal with the cynical tweaking of drugs about to fall into the public domain purely for the purpose of denying access to others rather than engaging their innovative resources to bring online new ones.

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