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‘Strengthening’ intellectual property requires a method to already exist.
Obermark ’14 [Jon; August 25; M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, M.S. in Clinical Psychology from Argosy University Chicago, B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Beloit College; English Stack Exchange, “Noun for rule to strengthen a preexisting one,” https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/193207/noun-for-rule-to-strengthen-a-preexisting-one] pbk
A 'strengthening' of a law, like a 'correction' of an order, replaces the law and fixes it. A 'reinforcement' of a law, like a 'corrective (measure)' on an order would lie beside it, leaving the original in force, and filling gaps or shaping its interpretation.
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