Intellectual property damages reach NIS 2b.

As advances in technology make it increasingly difficult to slow the spread of intellectual property theft, leading to an estimated NIS 2 billion in annual damages in Israel, industry leaders at Wednesday's Intellectual Property Forum called on the government to begin working toward stamping out the illegal activity.
"There should be a uniform policy in terms of protecting intellectual property like there is in the US, the UK and Japan," Uriel Lynn, president of the Federation of Israeli Chambers of Commerce, which encompasses the Israeli Intellectual Property Forum, told The Jerusalem Post. "A national policy needs to be formed. Then a national council that will enforce the policy needs to organized. However, from the side of the government, there is no movement to organize such a council. The government at this moment has no real plans to get involved in this movement." For the full article, click on the link below...
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