Commentary

Intellectual Property: NAFTA Renegotiation Priority #1

By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, May 10 2018

Intellectual property — patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets — provides America's greatest advantage over the rest of the world, and explains our centuries of innovative exceptionalism better than any other factor. As the Trump Administration renegotiates the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) this month, preserving America's IP advantage must therefore remain our first priority. Here's the concern. In this year's annual U.S. Chamber of Commerce International IP Index, which ranks fifty nations on forty objective measures, the U.S.…

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