Certainly the private sector is very much engaged in terms of conducting investigations and doing what they can to protect their intellectual property rights and to try to raise awareness of this issue. But when you're dealing with counterfeit and pirated goods, the civil remedies that we have available are just not very effective. If you bring someone to court and sue them for your lost profits and so on, chances are they have no assets. And even if you could get a significant award, they have very few assets that you could seize or obtain from the offenders. So it's certainly an area where we do need more help from the government, specifically dealing with counterfeit and pirated goods, not areas where it's questionable whether there's a legal issue as to whether a trademark or copyright is being used improperly, but in cases where it's clear that we're dealing with counterfeit and pirated goods.
On November 28th, 2006. See this statement in context.