“Does it really make sense for countries who really are producing very little IP of their own to be signing on to the strongest IP standards in the world? ... What's the advantage to them?”
“People lose in trade, and because our social safety nets here are so thin to begin with, the resistance is greater than it is in some of the other industrial countries.”
“While there have been some encouraging signs that Japan's economy is declining less sharply, most forecasters do not see a recovery this year or into next,”