The theme of the annual Surrey golf tournament: "Fight Intellectual Property Theft, Support Golf."
Over the past eight years the Golf Tournament has raised £200,000 to support the work of our industry enforcement agencies – investigating and prosecuting pirates and counterfeiters.
The hosts of Golf 2005, all members of the Alliance Against IP Theft, increasingly unite to pool resources, lobby government and promote the value of intellectual property to the UK economy. The estimated £11 billion lost last year to all forms of IP theft was money lost to future investment in new artistic talent, new products and innovation. It also put vast illegal profits into the pockets of crooks and organised crime.
(Thanks, Dan!)
