Bulgaria Property Investment
Treaties in Force - Index 2003
AFRICA331 AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (See under FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS)AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT FUND (See under FINANCE) AGRICULTURE (See also FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION; PATENTS) 331 AIRCRAFT (See AVIATION; TRADE AND COMMERCE)ALIENS333 ANTARCTICA (See also CONSERVATION) 334 ANZUS PACT (See Security Treaty under ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Text: U.S. Releases 2004 Report on Intellectual Property Protection
The United States is committed to a policy of promoting increased intellectual property protection. In this regard, we are making progress in advancing the protection of these rights through a variety of mechanisms, including through the negotiation of free trade agreements (FTAs). We are pleased that the recently concluded FTAs with Central America including the Dominican Republic, Morocco and Australia will strengthen the protection of IPR in those countries. Specifically, the intellectual property chapters of these agreements provide for higher levels of intellectual property protection in a number of areas covered by the TRIPS Agreement. We are also seeking higher levels of protection and enforcement in the FTAs that are currently under negotiation with Bahrain, Panama, the Southern Africa Customs Union, in the upcoming FTA negotiations with Andean countries and Thailand, and in the ongoing negotiation of a Free Trade Area of the Americas. Another opportunity we are using to s ... [Read More]
Text version (English)
• We help to ensure that companies’ investments overseas are treated fairly. ... • We work to ensure the protection of American intellectual property. ... • We help to ensure that American business people, farmers and workers have a level playing field to compete for foreign trade and investment. ... [Read More]
Treaties in Force 2002 Index
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USIA, Economic Perspectives, May 1998 -- IPR
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN THE TRIPS ERAAn Interview With Joseph Papovich, Assistant U.S. TradeRepresentative for Services, Investment, and IntellectualProperty, and Claude Burcky, Director for Intellectual Propertyin the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative ... So in 1988 the Bush administration and the U.S. Congress decidedon a two-track approach to combating piracy and counterfeiting ofour products. One track involved creating the so-called Special301 program, through which we undertake an annual review of whichcountries deny adequate and effective protection of Americanintellectual property. The other track involved pursuing aninternational agreement on intellectual property that was bindingand had enforcement provisions as part of the Uruguay Round tradenegotiations in the GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade)that were beginning at that time. That was finally achieved when the Uruguay Round was concluded in 1994 with the TRIPSagreement (the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects ofIntellectual Property Rights). ... [Read More]
Austria
Austria is a party to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and several international property conventions, including the European Patent Convention, the Patent Cooperation Treaty, the Madrid Trademark Agreement, the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purpose of Patent Procedure, the Universal Copyright Convention, the Brussels Convention Relating to the Distribution of Program-Carrying Signals Transmitted by Satellite, and the Geneva Treaty on the International Registration of Audiovisual Works. In compliance with the World Trade Organization Treaty on Intellectual Property (TRIPS), Austria extended patent terms so that patents on inventions are valid up to 20 years after application. Since both the United States and Austria are members of the "Paris Union" International Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, American investors are entitled to the same kind of protection under Austrian patent legislati ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Text: State Dept. Official Cites Intellectual Property Benefits
In assessing the state of intellectual property protection overseas, we see two complementary and positive trends in recent years. First, we observe a significant, if not readily quantifiable, increased appreciation of the benefits inherent in effective protection of intellectual property rights. More and more, our trading partners are beginning to understand that their future growth and development depends in large part on their becoming active players in the global knowledge-based economy. They also are coming to appreciate that strong intellectual property protection is necessary to create an attractive investment climate. In short, economic self-interest is becoming a very important factor in enhancing intellectual property protection overseas. Our trading partners' actions to improve intellectual property protection and enforcement benefit their companies and our companies. ... [Read More]
US Department Of State Post Report
Subsequently, in the period from July 2001 to July 2003, international credit rating agencies (Moody’s, Standard and Poor’s, FITCH and JCRA) upgraded Bulgaria credit rating ten times. JCRA has recently assigned investment credit rating to Bulgaria. Bulgaria is one notch below investment credit rating according to Standard and Poor’s and FITCH, and two notches below investment credit rating according to Moody’s. ... Greece is the top foreign investor, with $632.8 million, or 12.3% of total foreign investment, followed by Germany, with $620.9 million, or 12% of total foreign investment, and Italy, with $540.2 million, or 10.5% of total foreign investment. ... [Read More]
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