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Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement<br />
ENDNOTES<br />
SECTION 3<br />
1<br />
See, e.g., United States Department of Homeland Security,<br />
Customs and Border Protection, “Intellectual Property<br />
Rights Seizure Statistics - Fiscal Year 2015,” at p. 6, accessed<br />
from https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/<br />
documents/2016-Nov/ipr_annual_report_FY%202015_final1.<br />
pdf.<br />
2<br />
See, e.g., R. Gil Kerlikowske, Commissioner, United States<br />
Customs and Border Protection, United States Department<br />
of Homeland Security, “Commissioner Kerlikowske’s Remarks<br />
at the University of South Florida” (February 19, 2016),<br />
accessed from https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/speeches-andstatements/commissioner-kerlikowske%E2%80%99s-remarkuniversity-south-florida.<br />
3<br />
See, e.g., World Customs Organization, “Illicit Trade Report<br />
2013,” at p. 69 (June 2014), accessed from http://www.wcoomd.<br />
org/en/media/newsroom/2014/june/~/media/WCO/Public/<br />
Global/PDF/Topics/Enforcement%20and%20Compliance/<br />
Activities%20and%20Programmes/Illicit%20Trade%20Report%20<br />
2012/ILLICIT%202013%20-%20EN_LR2.ashx.<br />
4<br />
See, e.g., United States Department of Homeland Security,<br />
Customs and Border Protection, “Intellectual Property Rights<br />
Seizure Statistics - Fiscal Year 2015,” at p. 19, accessed from<br />
https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/2016-<br />
Nov/ipr_annual_report_FY%202015_final1.pdf; see also United<br />
States Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border<br />
Protection, “Intellectual Property Rights Seizure Statistics - Fiscal<br />
Year 2013,” at p. 7, accessed from https://www.cbp.gov/sites/<br />
default/files/documents/ipr_annual_report_2013_072414%20<br />
Final.pdf.<br />
5<br />
See, e.g., World Customs Organization, “Illicit Trade Report<br />
2013,” at p. 69 (June 2014), accessed from http://www.wcoomd.<br />
org/en/media/newsroom/2014/june/~/media/WCO/Public/<br />
Global/PDF/Topics/Enforcement%20and%20Compliance/<br />
Activities%20and%20Programmes/Illicit%20Trade%20Report%20<br />
2012/ILLICIT%202013%20-%20EN_LR2.ashx.<br />
6<br />
See, e.g., United States Department of Homeland Security,<br />
Customs and Border Protection, “Intellectual Property Rights<br />
Seizure Statistics - Fiscal Year 2015,” at p. 27 (finding that in<br />
FY2015, 52% of all seizures were from the express environment),<br />
accessed from https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/<br />
documents/2016-Nov/ipr_annual_report_FY%202015_final1.<br />
pdf.<br />
7<br />
See, e.g., United States Department of Homeland Security,<br />
Customs and Border Protection, “Intellectual Property<br />
Rights Seizure Statistics - Fiscal Year 2015,” at p. 7, accessed<br />
from https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/<br />
documents/2016-Nov/ipr_annual_report_FY%202015_final1.<br />
pdf.<br />
8<br />
Infographic provided by U.S. Department of Homeland<br />
Security, Customs and Border Protection. The infographic<br />
depicts U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s intellectual<br />
property rights seizure process, and is for illustrative purposes<br />
only; a number of intermediary steps are not present. From a<br />
process management standpoint, an imported parcel containing<br />
counterfeit goods may go through several dozen “touch points”<br />
before a seizure is fully effected.<br />
9<br />
See, e.g., United States Department of Homeland Security,<br />
Customs and Border Protection, “Intellectual Property Rights<br />
Seizure Statistics - Fiscal Year 2015,” at p. 7 (the $800 amount<br />
is based on a pilot program which resulted in the voluntary<br />
abandonment of 2,857 shipments, saving the Government<br />
$2.2 million in interdiction and processing costs), accessed<br />
from https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/<br />
documents/2016-Nov/ipr_annual_report_FY%202015_final1.<br />
pdf.<br />
10<br />
See, e.g., United States Department of Homeland Security,<br />
Customs and Border Protection, “Advisory Committee on<br />
Commercial Operations to U.S Customs & Border Protection<br />
- Government Report on Intellectual Property Rights<br />
Enforcement,” at p. 1 (October 2015), accessed from https://<br />
www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/documents/TERC%20IPR%20<br />
Issue%20Paper.pdf.<br />
11<br />
See, e.g., United States Department of Homeland Security,<br />
Customs and Border Protection, “Intellectual Property Rights<br />
Seizure Statistics - Fiscal Year 2015,” at pp. 7,14 (finding that<br />
the pilot program resulted in 2,857 additional interdictions<br />
in FY 2015, the equivalent of 10 percent of average annual<br />
total seizures for containers of all sizes), accessed from https://<br />
www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/2016-Nov/<br />
ipr_annual_report_FY%202015_final1.pdf.<br />
12<br />
See, e.g., Global Intellectual Property Strategy Center, P.C.,<br />
Comment Letter to U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement<br />
Coordinator, at p. 3 (September 25, 2015) (providing comments<br />
in response to IPEC’s Federal Register notice of September<br />
1, 2015), accessed from https://www.regulations.gov/<br />
document?D=OMB-2015-0003-0010.<br />
13<br />
See, e.g., World Customs Organization, “WCO News,”<br />
at p. 7 (October 2014), accessed from http://www.<br />
wcoomd.org/en/media/wco-news-magazine/previous/~/<br />
media/1B6D8A89F61142AC9F4ADB8678DEF5C9.pdf; see also<br />
United States Department of State, “The Global Illicit Trade In<br />
Tobacco: A Threat To National Security,” at p. 19 (December<br />
2015), accessed from http://www.state.gov/documents/<br />
organization/250513.pdf.<br />
14<br />
With respect to copyrights, The Trade Facilitation and<br />
Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 calls for the enforcement<br />
of a copyright, by the United States Customs and Border<br />
Protection, for which an application is pending in the United<br />
States Copyright Office “…to the same extent and in the same<br />
manner as if the copyright were registered with the Copyright<br />
Office, including by sharing information, images, and samples<br />
of merchandise suspected of infringing the copyright….” See<br />
Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, Pub. L.<br />
114–125, § 304, 130 Stat. 122, 150 (2016) (codified as amended<br />
at 19 U.S.C. § 4343).<br />
15<br />
See, e.g., United States Department of Homeland Security,<br />
Customs and Border Protection, “e-Allegations” submission,<br />
accessed from https://eallegations.cbp.gov/Home/Index2; see<br />
also United States Department of Homeland Security, National<br />
Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center, “Allegation<br />
of Counterfeiting and Intellectual Piracy” submission, accessed<br />
from https://www.iprcenter.gov/referral.<br />
16<br />
See Section I.<br />
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