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Office of the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator<br />
17<br />
See Section I.<br />
18<br />
See, e.g., United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice<br />
Research Institute, “Ensuring Supply Chain Security: The<br />
Role of Anti-Counterfeiting Technologies,” at p. 15 (February<br />
2016) (finding that “…increased knowledge concerning<br />
technology developed to fight counterfeiting and ensure<br />
supply chain security may represent an important element to<br />
support national and international efforts aimed at fighting<br />
counterfeiting and illicit trade…”), accessed from http://www.<br />
unicri.it/topics/counterfeiting/anticounterfeiting_technologies/<br />
Ensuring_supply_chain_security_report.pdf.<br />
19<br />
See, e.g., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln<br />
Laboratory, “Colorful microparticles for anticounterfeiting:<br />
Glowing, smartphone-readable nanocrystals could authenticate<br />
products” (February 2016), accessed from https://www.ll.mit.<br />
edu/news/REMcodes.html.<br />
20<br />
See, e.g., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Technology<br />
Review, “Tiny Particles Could Help Verify Goods: Chemical<br />
engineers hope smartphone-readable microparticles could<br />
crack down on counterfeiting” (April 14, 2014), accessed from<br />
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/526621/tiny-particlescould-help-verify-goods/;<br />
see also Massachusetts Institute of<br />
Technology, Lincoln Laboratory, “Colorful microparticles for<br />
anticounterfeiting: Glowing, smartphone-readable nanocrystals<br />
could authenticate products” (February 2016), accessed from<br />
https://www.ll.mit.edu/news/REMcodes.html.<br />
27<br />
See, e.g., World Customs Organization, “Model Provisions<br />
For National Legislation To Implement Fair And Effective<br />
Border Measures Consistent With The Agreement On Trade-<br />
Related Aspects Of Intellectual Property Rights,” accessed from<br />
http://www.asean.org/uploads/archive/20534-annex3.pdf.<br />
28<br />
See, e.g., World Customs Organization, “Model Provisions<br />
For National Legislation To Implement Fair And Effective<br />
Border Measures Consistent With The Agreement On Trade-<br />
Related Aspects Of Intellectual Property Rights,” at p. 125,<br />
accessed from http://www.asean.org/uploads/archive/20534-<br />
annex3.pdf.<br />
29<br />
For more information, visit the Economic Commission for Latin<br />
America and the Caribbean, “Ports Ranking. The Top 20 in Latin<br />
America and the Caribbean in 2015” (issued June 13, 2016),<br />
accessed from http://www.cepal.org/cgi-bin/getprod.asp?xml=/<br />
perfil/noticias/noticias/4/54974/P54974.xml&xsl=/perfil/tpl/p1f.<br />
xsl&base=/perfil/tpl/top-bottom.xsl. The top 100 ports in Latin<br />
America and the Caribbean alone (as summarized in FIG. 55 on<br />
next page)—without consideration of ports in Asia, the Middle<br />
East, Europe, Africa or elsewhere—demonstrate the high volume<br />
and container port throughput, and the resulting burden on a<br />
rights holder when customs officers will not or cannot act without<br />
the lodging of an application by a rights holder.<br />
30<br />
Office of the United States Trade Representative, “2016<br />
Special 301 Report” (2016) p. 33, 56, accessed from https://ustr.<br />
gov/sites/default/files/USTR-2016-Special-301-Report.pdf.<br />
21<br />
See, e.g., Bernstein, Kerry, “Supply Chain Hardware Integrity<br />
for Electronics Defense (SHIELD),” Defense Advanced Research<br />
Projects Agency, accessed from http://www.darpa.mil/program/<br />
supply-chain-hardware-integrity-for-electronics-defense.<br />
22<br />
See e.g., United States Department of Homeland Security,<br />
Customs and Border Protection, “CBP Seizes $12 Million in<br />
Counterfeit Goods in Operation Super Fake” (February 4, 2015)<br />
(finding that Operation Super Fake, led by the United States<br />
Customs and Border Protection’s Mobile Intellectual Property<br />
Enforcement Teams, resulted in the interdiction of nearly 700<br />
shipments of counterfeit merchandise valued at $12 million<br />
as part of a Super Bowl XLIX focused blitz conducted over<br />
three days in January 2015), accessed from https://www.cbp.<br />
gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-seizes-12-millioncounterfeit-goods-operation-super-fake.<br />
23<br />
19 U.S.C. § 1526(f)(2).<br />
24<br />
19 U.S.C. § 1526(f)(3).<br />
25<br />
Allen Gina, Assistant Commissioner, Office of International<br />
Trade, United States Customs and Border Protection, United<br />
States Department of Homeland Security, “Statement Before<br />
the Senate Judiciary Committee” (June 22, 2011), accessed<br />
from https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/11-06-<br />
22%20Gina%20Testimony.pdf.<br />
26<br />
See, e.g., The World Bank, “Trade Logistics and Facilitation:<br />
The Role of Customs,” accessed from http://web.worldbank.<br />
org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTTRANSPORT/<br />
EXTTLF/0,,contentMDK:22677049~menuPK:7327167~pageP-<br />
K:210058~piPK:210062~theSitePK:515434,00.html.<br />
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