Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights
Andrew Mertha
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Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights

This brief adopts a neo-institutional approach to derive some generalizations about how China’s policies are enforced, why enforcement remains such a problem, and what foreign firms can do to meet the challenges provided by China’s enforcement regime.

In particular, the brief draws on the protection of intellectual property rights to illustrate the following.

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