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Introduction
[W]e’re going to aggressively protect our intellectual property. Our single greatest asset is the
innovation and ingenuity and creativity of the American people. It is essential to our prosper-
ity and it will only become more so in this century.
President Barack Obama
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March 11, 2010
This book is the product of hundreds and hundreds of hours of research, with material, both primary
and secondary, reviewed, studied, and gleaned from numerous sources, including White House
documentation, the US Congress, various other government agencies, many web searches for spe-
cic and general information, certain web blogs that are concerne ...