Trademark counterfeiting, product piracy, and the billion dollar threat to the U.S. economy / Paul R. Paradise.

1. Trademark counterfeiting. The importance of intellectual property ; Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act) ; Copyright Act of 1976 ; The Patent Act ; Common law background
2. The worldwide threat. Organized crime ; Technological advances ; Globalization of the economy ; Gray market goods ; Lack of intellectual property laws ; The threat to the U.S. business community
3. The trade dispute with the People's Republic of China. The 1991 Special 301 and Section 301 investigations ; China's emergence as an international pirate ; The 1994 Special 301 ; Special inforcement ; The 1996 Agreement (1996 Report on Implementation by the Chinese) ; The aftermath
Southeast Asia
4. The knockoff. The 1984 Trademark Counterfeiting Act ; Trouble along the border
5. Street peddlers and flea markets. Street peddlers ; Flea markets ; Fighting back
6. Pursuing the counterfeiters
7. The entertainment industries. Book piracy ; Film and video piracy ; Signal theft ; Pirated video games ; Music piracy
8. The pill pirates. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ; The drug approval process ; Drug counterfeiting in the Third World ; Assistance for the developing countries
9. Nuts and bolts. Counterfeit automobile parts ; Counterfeit aircraft parts
10. Piracy in cyberspace
11. Public education. Consumer demand ; Public education.