We Need a Point Person<\/strong><\/h2>\nIndia is notorious for counterfeiters, who infringe upon American trademarks and pirate American content at alarming rates. Indonesia discriminates against American technology firms and makes it difficult to register trademarks. Mexico has made it difficult for U.S. companies to seek relief in court for intellectual property infringement, a breach of its obligations in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. And South Korea manipulates the cost of patented American pharmaceuticals despite its promise to “appropriately recognize” the value of these drugs in the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS).<\/p>\n
While countries continue to violate Americans’ intellectual property rights, the country is without a point-person to negotiate on workers’ and businesses’ behalf.<\/p>\n
America needs a Chief IP Negotiator. And it has a superb person for the job in Chris Wilson. Please, Senators\u2014confirm him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The U.S. Senate might be the world’s “greatest deliberative body.” But it’s certainly not the quickest. For over a year, senators have failed to review and approve an uncontroversial nominee for a position that most Americans have never heard of\u2014but one that’s immensely important to our economy. In 2015, Congress passed the late Senator Orrin Hatch’s Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act, which created the position of Chief Innovation and Intellectual Property Negotiator. Senator Hatch believed that intellectual property (IP) was so important to the U.S. economy that it deserved the focus of an ambassador-rank official charged with guaranteeing strong IP standards are upheld and enforced with global trading partners. He was right: IP-intensive industries support more than 62 million American jobs, nearly half of all U.S. employment.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15041,"featured_media":139433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[274,5519,6998,845,228,3],"tags":[8753,74251,74250,7204,5531,38,49,74252,49464,13643,1652],"yst_prominent_words":[15265,16838,16486],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipwatchdog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipwatchdog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipwatchdog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipwatchdog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15041"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipwatchdog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ipwatchdog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152291,"href":"https:\/\/ipwatchdog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152290\/revisions\/152291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipwatchdog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipwatchdog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipwatchdog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipwatchdog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152290"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipwatchdog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=152290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}