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Dana Rohrabacher: “If we change our laws exactly like Japan's, to make it just like Japan's, which is harmonizing our law, which is the…”

On the recordApril 23, 1997
If we change our laws exactly like Japan's, to make it just like Japan's, which is harmonizing our law, which is the secret agreement, and I say secret agreement because I did not know anything about it as a Member of Congress. I was a Member of Congress at this time. Probably 1 out of 100 Members of Congress knew anything about this agreement with Japan. But if we harmonize our law with Japan, will that not mean that these same Japanese companies can come here and do in the United States to our little guys what they are doing to their people in Japan?
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Dana Rohrabacher
Republican · California
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the implications of harmonizing U.S. patent laws with Japan's during a congressional debate.

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