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Investment In Latin America Will Limit Migration North, Ryan J. O'Riordan, Stanley P. Kowalski
Investment In Latin America Will Limit Migration North, Ryan J. O'Riordan, Stanley P. Kowalski
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The refugee crisis at the US Southern Border is due to multiple compounding factors: Latin America’s over-reliance on commodities, failure to economically diversify to innovation, and a lack of coherent US strategic engagement with the region. The situation is hemispheric; imploding states and a serious humanitarian calamity loom ever larger on the southern horizon. Since this represents a long-term problem requiring strategic and sustainable development initiatives, a new Alliance for Progress for the 21st Century is proposed which will build partnerships to advance innovation-driven development across the region.
Intellectual Property: The Practical And Legal Fundamentals, Thomas G. Field Jr
Intellectual Property: The Practical And Legal Fundamentals, Thomas G. Field Jr
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Patents, copyrights, trademarks and related interests are known as intellectual property (IP). It has not been long since patents especially were regarded in U.S. courts, and the Supreme Court in particular, as tools of monopolists, and their owners often fared poorly. However, people have come increasingly to view privately funded innovation as critical to national economic well-being and to agree that such innovation cannot occur unless companies that succeed in the marketplace can recoup their research, development and marketing costs. That is a major function of IP, and, particularly within the past dozen years, IP has been seen, both here …