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To: marginmike who wrote (20080)	12/19/1998 1:03:00 AM
From: JGoren	Respond to of 152472

When Clinton met with head of Austria yesterday--with Iraq and impeachment--the two actually discussed EU exclusion of bananas! The US government is threatening to put 100% tariff on European products (don't know which ones) as sanction for banana exclusion. Perry LaForge mentioned how seriously interested the US government is in the ETSI standards as anti-trust, unfair trade situation. As i have said before, I just don't believe that foreigners understand how free-trade the US is and how protective of IPR. Remember, perhaps the most unique thing in the United States Constitution was that the founding fathers cared enough about IPR to explicitly provide that the federal government would issue patents! The biggest problem the US faces in the IPR area is the use of standards to exclude US products. If there is evidence in writing, the US government won't stand for it, and there will be 100% tariffs, which will essentially exclude all telecom products from the ETSI members.