US puts India, China, Pak on IPR watch list

The US government has put India, China and Pakistan along with 10 other countries on the intellectual property right (IPR) watch list for failing to prevent the theft of copyrighted property. Other nations on the watch list are Canada, Argentina, Algeria, Chile, Indonesia, Israel, Russia, Thailand, Ukraine and Venezuela. This was mentioned in the annual Special 301 report on the adequacy and effectiveness of US trading partners' protection and enforcement of IPR.