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04-28-2009 16:32

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From Beijing, I'm Tian Wei, and this is Dialogue live on CCTV International. Sunday marks the world intellectual property day. The theme for this year is promoting green innovation. Emphasizing the intellectual property system's role in advancing the development of green technologies and icon freely products.

However, some also argue just the opposite as they suspect if the IP underlining the technology, it has been an important barrier to globalizing the response to climate change. To answer those questions, I'm joined in the studio by Mark Allen Cohen, he is the of counsel from Jones Day, that's a law firm here, based on Beijing.

And previously he's also being dealing with IPR protection issues with the US Empersy here in Beijing. Meanwhile in the studio we have Professor Guo Shoukang from Renmin University of China. Before we go to a discussion with both of you, let's take a look at this background report.