Howard Knopf points to the latest World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Report which ranks Canada ahead of the U.S., Japan, and the U.K. for intellectual property protection.
Canadian IP Protection Ranked Ahead U.S., Japan, and U.K.
September 12, 2009
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Something to note is that this result is a qualitative assessment based on the World Economic Forum’s Executive Opinion Survey, which means that there is no common disapproval of Canadian IP protection laws, as the media industry lobby would have us believe.