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Patrick Leahy: “While estimates of intellectual property theft are hard to get exactly the amount, we know that it costs billions of…”

On the recordJune 21, 2011
While estimates of intellectual property theft are hard to get exactly the amount, we know that it costs billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lost jobs.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

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Leahy emphasizes the significant economic impact of intellectual property theft.

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