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"China Achievements Exhibtion for Intellectual Property Protection (IPR)"

A footnote to Simon's piece on the Silk Market: Protecting intellectual property requires the use of all kinds of different tactics, some obvious--like telling vendors they can't sell exact replicas of brand name products--and some more subtle. The People's Daily's English-language site has a whole special section elaborating the country's progress in safeguarding intellectual property. It includes the following photograph:

Wen%20IPR1.tiff

only in China...

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