Top Posts & Must-Read Articles from the Past Week
Special note: This will be the last SelectUSA Digest newsletter of the year. We'll be back Friday, January 5, 2018. From all of us at SelectUSA, we wish you all a safe and happy holiday season!
Austrian Auto Parts Firm Finds Home in Georgia
By Christopher Connell, Writer, ShareAmerica (U.S. Department of State)
 (December 18, 2017) When the Austrian specialty steel company Voestalpine AG looked for the right place in the United States to assemble parts for premium automobile manufacturers, the South seemed perfect. “We followed our customers,” says Peter Schwab, a Voestalpine management board member and head of its metal forming division. The company’s Cartersville, Georgia, plant is 330 kilometers from Spartanburg, South Carolina, the site of the largest BMW plant in the world.
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 Since last week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has been celebrating the holiday season with a a fun and festive Twitter campaign that commemorates intellectual property (IP) rights in the United States: #12DaysOfPatents.
The hashtag highlights different holiday-related patents from the USPTO archives. It also conveys the extent to which IP rights have shaped American life throughout history. From now until Christmas Day, check out #12DaysOfPatents and follow @uspto for year-round IP information (and cool graphics).
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