`EXHIBIT 2009
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`EXHIBIT 2009
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`Intellectual Property and Innovation
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`Intellectual P roperty & Innovation
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`Intellectual P roperty, C reativity, and Innovation
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`D escription
`Safeguarding Intellectual Property and Promoting Innovation
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`Intellectual property is a critical driver of technological innovation and economic competitiveness — and it is at
`the very heart of the software business, encouraging innovators to invest in research and product
`development for the benefit of customers and consumers.
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`BSA believes:
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`Patents, copyrights, trademarks, and other IP rights should be comprehensive and enforceable.
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`Trading partners should not use IP rights to promote local industries or stave off international competition.
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`Companies should not use licensing practices, especially of patents, to create unfair competitive advantages.
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`Specific policy actions needed:
`Strengthening IP enforcement
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`Through bilateral, multilateral, and regional trade forums, expand efforts to combat software IP infringement in the world’ s fastest-
`growing markets for information technology, such as Brazil, Russia, India, and China.
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`Devote adequate resources and law enforcement training to vigorously enforce copyright and trademark laws domestically and
`internationally.
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`Improve coordination among US agencies by continuing to advance the US IP Enforcement Coordinator’ s Joint Strategic Plan.
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`Improve cooperation among governments around the world so law enforcement can respond quickly and effectively to IP crimes.
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`Encourage governments to create specialized IP law enforcement units that have the expertise to investigate IP crimes
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`Software licensing
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`Support the legal principle that software companies should be allowed to serve their customers with product licenses that cover price,
`volume, transferability, and other considerations.
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`Software patentability
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`Support full implementation of the America Invents Act, which modernizes and improves the quality of the US patent system for the
`information age.
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`Ensure that patents are available to inventions in the software field just as they are available to inventions in any other industry.
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`Ensure that disputes over standard-essential patents are not litigated in forums where the only available remedies are market-exclusion
`orders that disrupt the availability of IT products and services for consumers.
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`Internet freedom
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`Affirm that an open and free Internet cannot exist without robust protections for intellectual property.
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`Technology neutrality
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`Oppose legislated or regulated technology mandates that dictate government procurement and other policies favoring one technology,
`system architecture, or business model over another.
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`Public awareness
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`Educate the public about the roles that intellectual property rights play in fostering innovation, creating jobs, and raising wages.
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`Tax reform
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`Strengthen and make permanent the research and development tax credit.
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`Ensure other US tax laws promote investment in new technologies, provide a level playing field for American companies at home and
`abroad, and promote investment of earnings from overseas sales.
`IP & Innovation News
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`R esources
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`http://www.bsa.org/advocacy/intellectual-property-and-innovation
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