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Most voters can’t distinguish different IP mechanisms.

Decker 23 [Mandy Wilson Decker, Patent Attorney and member of the Intellectual Property & Technology Service Group. “What 70% of Americans Don’t Understand About Intellectual Property,” Stites and Harbison, October 26, 2023. https://www.stites.com/resources/client-alerts/what-70-of-americans-dont-understand-about-intellectual-property/]

The United States Intellectual Property Alliance (USIPA) recently published the results of its US Intellectual Property Awareness & Attitudes Survey. Among its findings, the survey results revealed that 70% of Americans are unable to distinguish between mechanisms – patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets – for protecting Intellectual Property (IP).

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