Good afternoon. This hearing will come to order. Before i began, i will thank the witnesses for accommodating the scheduled change today. We left the senate floor where senator Johnny Isaacson gave his Farewell Speech and may friend and colleague Ranking Member coons is down there now bidding him farewell on the speech. He and senator isaacson worked a long time together. Its fitting senator is there because in many respects he embodies a lot of the same attributes as senator isaacson in terms of working together on this committee. When he comes in he will interject but in the meantime we will get to your opening statements. We are here to talk about the issue of fraudulent trade marks. As everyone knows trade marks are the back bone of many businesses options. Unfortunately, the United States has seen a surge in fraudulent trademark applications. According to the wall street journal, from 2013 to 2017, the United States patent and Trademark Office testing a surgeon trademark applicati
You need to understand lawyers, lawyers do not play fair they argue two things. They can argue look, the person did not do the crime, the person was not guilty. Usually in a political scandal, the argument is that there wasnt enough proof to find them guilty belonged beyond a reasonable doubt, its not that they were blameless, its not that they were innocent. But you know we say, we would rather let 100 guilty go free, then convict one innocent man. So we are loading it to a very high standard. The thing that lawyers argue with the public sometimes and has trouble with this procedure. If you didnt get that evidence into the courtroom properly. Then it cant come in. If you didnt share the scope information properly with the defense, those are procedural violations which can equally invalidate a verdict. And im happy to argue both, that is kind of what we are going to go through. One word from last week, last week was the allure of the white house tape and i went through a bunch of them
So. Well. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Nixon Library. My name is jim byron and i am the president , ceo of the Richard Nixon foundation. And id like to acknowledge a few special guests with this evening, beginning with tamara martin, director of the Richard Nixon president ial library and museum with the national archives. Tamara, thank you for being here. Id also like to welcome the mayor of the great of whittier, joe venturi. Thank you for being here, mr. Mayor. And i want to thank all of the president s Council Members and Associates Club members of the Richard Nixon foundation, who are in the this evening. Because it is your support allows us to put on Educational Programs like the one that you are seeing tonight. So thank you for your support of the nixon foundation. This evening, going to hear from paul carter, who has written a terrific new book, Richard Nixon, californias native son. This is one of the most important books on Richard Nixon to have been
So. Well. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Nixon Library. My name is jim byron and i am the president , ceo of the Richard Nixon foundation. And id like to acknowledge a few special guests with this evening, beginning with tamara martin, director of the Richard Nixon president ial library and museum with the national archives. Tamara, thank you for being here. Id also like to welcome the mayor of the great of whittier, joe venturi. Thank you for being here, mr. Mayor. And i want to thank all of the president s Council Members and Associates Club members of the Richard Nixon foundation, who are in the this evening. Because it is your support allows us to put on Educational Programs like the one that you are seeing tonight. So thank you for your support of the nixon foundation. This evening, going to hear from paul carter, who has written a terrific new book, Richard Nixon, californias native son. This is one of the most important books on Richard Nixon to have been
So. Well. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Nixon Library. My name is jim byron and i am the president , ceo of the Richard Nixon foundation. And id like to acknowledge a few special guests with this evening, beginning with tamara martin, director of the Richard Nixon president ial library and museum with the national archives. Tamara, thank you for being here. Id also like to welcome the mayor of the great of whittier, joe venturi. Thank you for being here, mr. Mayor. And i want to thank all of the president s Council Members and Associates Club members of the Richard Nixon foundation, who are in the this evening. Because it is your support allows us to put on Educational Programs like the one that you are seeing tonight. So thank you for your support of the nixon foundation. This evening, going to hear from paul carter, who has written a terrific new book, Richard Nixon, californias native son. This is one of the most important books on Richard Nixon to have been