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Office of the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator<br />

70<br />

See The White House, “Strategy to Combat Transnational<br />

Organized Crime: Addressing Converging Threats to National<br />

Security,” (July 2011), accessed from https://www.whitehouse.<br />

gov/sites/default/files/microsites/2011-strategy-combat-transnational-organized-crime.pdf<br />

71<br />

See, e.g., International Chamber of Commerce Business<br />

Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP) and Frontier<br />

Economics, “Estimating the global economic and social impacts<br />

of counterfeiting and piracy,” (February 2011), accessed<br />

from http://www.iccwbo.org/Data/Documents/Bascap/Global-Impacts-Study---Full-Report/;<br />

United States Government<br />

Accountability Office, “GAO-10-423: Observations on Efforts<br />

to Quantify the Economic Effects of Counterfeit and Pirated<br />

Goods,” (April 2010), accessed from http://www.gao.gov/assets/310/303057.pdf.<br />

72<br />

See United States Department of Commerce, “Intellectual<br />

Property and the U.S. Economy: 2016 Update” (September<br />

2016), accessed from https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/<br />

documents/IPandtheUSEconomySept2016.pdf.<br />

73<br />

See United States Department of Homeland Security, “Intellectual<br />

Property Rights Seizure Statistics: Fiscal Year 2015,” at<br />

p.17, accessed from https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/<br />

assets/documents/2016-Apr/FY%202015%20IPR%20Stats%20<br />

Presentation.pdf. See also National Intellectual Property Rights<br />

Coordination Center, “Intellectual Property Rights Violations:<br />

A Report on Threats to United States Interests at Home and<br />

Abroad,” (November 2011) at p.20, accessed from https://www.<br />

iprcenter.gov/reports/ipr-center-reports/IPR%20Center%20<br />

Threat%20Report%20and%20Survey.pdf/view.<br />

74<br />

The number of personal care items seized by the U.S.<br />

Department of Homeland Security in FY 2015 was 1,836, a 16<br />

percent increase from 1,578 items seized in FY 2014. See United<br />

States Department of Homeland Security, “Intellectual Property<br />

Rights Seizure Statistics: Fiscal Year 2015,” at p.17, accessed<br />

from https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/2016-Apr/FY%202015%20IPR%20Stats%20Presentation.<br />

pdf. See also National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination<br />

Center, “Intellectual Property Rights Violations: A Report<br />

on Threats to United States Interests at Home and Abroad,”<br />

(November 2011) at p.20, accessed from https://www.iprcenter.<br />

gov/reports/ipr-center-reports/IPR%20Center%20Threat%20<br />

Report%20and%20Survey.pdf/view.<br />

accessed from https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/2015-06-17-000000/joint-operation-seizes-critical-counterfeit-beauty.<br />

See also United States Department<br />

of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, “Counterfeit<br />

Cosmetics, Fragrances: Hazardous to Your Health” (Jan. 2,<br />

2014), accessed from https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/counterfeit-cosmetics-fragrances;<br />

City of London Police, Police<br />

Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU), “PIPCU urges the<br />

public to ‘Wake up – don’t fake up!’,” (May 22, 2015), accessed<br />

from https://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/advice-and-support/<br />

fraud-and-economic-crime/pipcu/wakeupdontfakeup/Pages/<br />

wakeupdontfakeup.aspx.<br />

80<br />

See, e.g., Zulueta, Adrienna, Massive fake health and beauty<br />

supplies ring busted,” (CNN.com: March 9, 2014) (reporting<br />

that the seizures of “counterfeits included everyday health and<br />

beauty items such as ChapStick, Johnson’s Baby Oil, Vaseline<br />

and Always sanitary pads”), accessed from http://www.cnn.<br />

com/2014/03/08/justice/new-york-counterfeit-beauty-supplies/<br />

index.html.<br />

81<br />

See United States Department of Homeland Security, “Intellectual<br />

Property Rights Seizure Statistics: Fiscal Year 2015,”<br />

accessed from https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/<br />

documents/2016-Apr/FY%202015%20IPR%20Stats%20Presentation.pdf.<br />

82<br />

See, e.g., Arnold, Ben, “Insights and Opinions from Analysts<br />

and Experts in more than 20 Industries,” (NPG Group Blog:<br />

August 24, 2015) (in the U.S., from July 2014 to July 2015, sales<br />

of headphones totaled $2.9 billion, with Beats by Dre and Bose<br />

commanding 81% of the premium headphone market) accessed<br />

from https://www.npd.com/wps/portal/npd/us/blog/2015/<br />

summers-end-no-match-for-stereo-headphone-sales. See also<br />

Nylander, Johan, “Chinese Fakes Cash in on Dr. Dre’s Beats<br />

Headphones Bonanza,” (CNN.com: October 13, 2013) (finding<br />

that a counterfeiting operation in China was willing to deliver<br />

100 units of Beats products in a day, and 1,000 units in a week),<br />

accessed from http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/13/business/chinafake-headphones-dr-dre-beats.<br />

83<br />

See Underwriters Laboratories, “Counterfeit iPhone Adapters:<br />

A UL Technical Investigation Shows a 99 Percent Failure Rate,”<br />

(2016) (hereinafter “UL Report”), accessed from library.ul.com/<br />

wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2016/09/10314-Counterfeiti-<br />

Phone-WP-HighRes_FINAL.pdf.<br />

75<br />

See United States Department of Justice, “Prosecuting Intellectual<br />

Property Crimes” (United States Attorneys’ Bulletin Vol.<br />

64, No. 1: January 2016) at p.36, accessed from https://www.<br />

justice.gov/usao/file/813026/download.<br />

76<br />

United States Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs<br />

and Border Protection, “Joint Operation Seizes Critical<br />

Counterfeit Beauty Personal Care Products,” (June 17, 2015),<br />

accessed from https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/2015-06-17-000000/joint-operation-seizes-critical-counterfeit-beauty.<br />

77<br />

21 U.S.C. Sec. 301 et. seq.<br />

78<br />

See United States Department of Justice, “Prosecuting Intellectual<br />

Property Crimes” (United States Attorneys’ Bulletin Vol.<br />

64, No. 1: January 2016) at p.36, accessed from https://www.<br />

justice.gov/usao/file/813026/download.<br />

79<br />

United States Department of Homeland Security, Customs<br />

and Border Protection, “Joint Operation Seizes Critical<br />

Counterfeit Beauty Personal Care Products” (June 17, 2015),<br />

84<br />

UL Report at 2.<br />

85<br />

UL Report at 5.<br />

86<br />

See World Customs Organization, “WCO Members join<br />

together to fight imports of substandard and counterfeit electrical<br />

products,” (October 24, 2011), accessed from http://www.<br />

wcoomd.org/en/media/newsroom/2011/october/wco-members-join-together-to-fight-imports-of-substandard-and-counterfeit-electrical-products.aspx.<br />

See also United States Consumer<br />

Product Safety Commission, “May is National Electrical Safety<br />

Month: CPSC Warns of Dangerous Counterfeit Electrical Products”<br />

(May 9, 2007), accessed from http://www.cpsc.gov/en/<br />

newsroom/news-releases/2007/may-is-national-electrical-safety-monthcpsc-warns-of-dangerous-counterfeit-electrical-products/;<br />

Consumer Reports, “Counterfeit Goods: How to Tell the<br />

Real From the Rip-off” (May 28, 2015), accessed from http://<br />

www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2015/05/counterfeitgoods-how-to-tell-real-from-ripoff/index.htm.<br />

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