We cant ignore international competition. The question for the committee is, if the United States isnt going to adopt some form of intellectual property bonds or patent box, what are we going to do . Are we going to just ignore what is going on in the rest of the world . It hardly seems like a good idea. But the downside and people have noticed this of the patent box or intellectual property boxes that unless theyre carefully crafted, you can have a serious problem of encouraging too much property being included in the patent box, and you get a lot of revenue erosion that way, and its pretty undesirable. The issue really is what are we trying to achieve with the intellectual property box and patent something to the answer should be we want to encourage activities we would otherwise lose, and if we find ourselves in that situation, then we should try to figure out a way to craft one of these things. The rest of the world is doing and it we ignore them at our peril. I think i have a diff
0 she ll have some challenges ahead, no doubt about it. not the least of which making good on her promise to teach me how to dance. how to dance. i m anderson cooper. captions by vitac www.vitac.com hello, everyone, and welcome to our special coverage of the white house correspondents dinner. i m don lemon. headlining tonight s event, well, of course president barack obama. along with comedian and tv late-night host conan o brien, with an audience of journalists and celebs. insiders jokingly refer to this event as the nerd prom. we ll be carrying the president and conan live. and you will not want to miss one minute of it. but before we get to all of that we have to remember that this year is a little different. this is a live look at the memorial in boston s copley square. it has been a difficult two weeks for too many americans in boston as well as in west texas. the president has been to both places in recent days, and we re going to see how those two tragic events are changi
presents its 2012 deficit targets. and in the u.s. treasury secretary timothy geithner goes on the defense saying critics of financial reforms and bailouts are suffering from financial crisis amnesia. cnbc s worldwide exchange, christine tan, i m ross westgate. jackie deangelis will join us later. spain s unemployment rate up by 2.4% in february for the seventh month running with the numbers of job seekers hitting 4.7 million. the unemployment rate is now the highest in the eurozone. the new government led by conservative leader has been pushing for looser fiscal targets but eurozone officials have not offered any leeway on deficit goals. according to media reports spain may present a 2012 budget based on a deficit target of up to 5.5% of gdp compared to the 4.4% agreed with brussels. the austerity versus growth dichotomy has topped the agenda at the summit which kicked off last night in the belgian capital. leaders have gone back to ways of promoting economic expansion
occupy protesters take over a bank of america branch pounding on desks and defacing walls. a bank manager demand they leave, but it didn t happen until police moved in and started making arrests. nearly a hundred of them were arrested tonight. good evening, everyone. i m carolyn johnson. and i m dan ashley. today s occupation of b of a in san francisco could be a sign of tactics yet to come. with demonstrators leaving their encampments and targeting banks. abc s [no audio] here we go. we shut all of the doors. the bank manager wanted the trespassers out, and police gave them the option to leave. some walked out, but most did not. 95 arrests. one by one they were lead out of the building and into police vans as supporters cheered and onlookers tried to catch a glimpse of the action which was tense at times. the officers were taking bottles from the protesters and at some point we have even had protesters grab the happened gun of some of the officers that were i