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PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- USA for Innovation (http://www.usaforinnovation.org) today announced an advertising campaign to highlight Thailand's new military regime and its recent threats to seize patents owned by American companies. The advertisement, a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal, highlights a recent movement by the new Thai military regime, which assumed power by coup last September, to steal American medical innovations.
Additionally, supporters of USA for Innovation delivered over 35,000 letters to President Bush, Administration officials and Congressional leadership urging the United States to "take retaliatory action in the form of trade or economic sanctions or the removal of military aid."
Complete Text of the Advertisement
"Slouching Towards Burma
Thailand's Radical New Regime
When military dictators take over by coup, the people lose. Right now,
General Surayud Chulanont is steering Thailand the way of Burma.
First, he lined military pockets with pay increases of $9 million and new
military spending of $1.1 billion.
Then the opposition started disappearing. Human Rights Watch last month
released a report detailing 22 cases of targeted 'disappearances' by the
Thai military in the southern provinces.
Then the Ministry of Health threatened to kidnap American tourists. The
military-appointed representative at the
World Health Organization, Dr.
Suwit Wibulpolprasert, proposed in January holding Western tourists
hostage to bargain for flu vaccines.
Then coup leaders hastily imposed draconian measures on foreign-owned
companies -- like capital controls, restrictions on business advertising
and surveillance of Americans working in Thailand. And now they are
stealing American assets for military benefit.
The new military-appointed Minister of Health, Mongkol Na Songkhla, has
begun to override the patents on American medical innovations to
strengthen manufacturing for the military-controlled Government
Pharmaceutical Organization.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark website claims that such theft costs America
$250 billion and 750,000 jobs per year.
In a global economy American innovation is our comparative advantage. A
study by USA for Innovation estimates that U.S. intellectual property
today is worth between $5 trillion and $5.5 trillion, equivalent to about
45 percent of the U.S.
GDP and greater than the GDP of any other nation in
the world.
We urge President Bush and the Congress to Protect America's Interest and
the People of Thailand."
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