Excerpt from Special 301 and the Fight Against Trade Piracy: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on International Trade of the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session; April 19, 1993 Intellectual property products are broadly divided into three types: copyrights, patents, and trademarks. Copyrighted works include books and magazines, musical scores, films and videos, sound recordings, and computer software. Patented products include pharmaceuticals, agrichemicals, and innovative machines, tools, and processes. Trademarked goods include a vast array of products from food to apparel to machines and more, recognizable by the name or symbol of their producers. Together, these industries rank with agriculture and aerospace as one of America's three most successful export sectors. American film and TV programs generate a billion trade surplus each year. American pharmaceuticals generate a $1 billion surp us. American computer software leads all competitors. I believe we have about 75 percent of the world market. And American trade marks get instant recognition worldwide. Creative works like these are difficult and often expensive to make, but they are often easy to copy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.