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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">US
President Barack Obama wants the country’s Justice Department
to get by with a bit less money next fiscal year – but not
when it comes to prosecuting overseas infringers of American
IP rights. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The
President’s proposed budget for fiscal 2013 would decrease the
Justice Department’s overall funding by a modest 0.4 percent.
However, the budget would boost the money spent on
transnational enforcement of intellectual property law by 14
percent (from US$35 million in FY2012 to US$40 million in
FY2013). The staff devoted to criminally prosecuting
infringers would increase by 41 percent (from 20 individuals
to 34). This increase, according to the Justice Department,
“will allow the Department to quickly address IP threats when
they are first noticed and stop them abroad more readily.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The
budget request indicates President Obama wants to ratchet up
the US government’s recent efforts against activities outside
American borders that hurt owners of US copyrights and
trademarks. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Since
its start less than two years ago, the US government’s “In Our
Sites” program has seized the domain names of over 350
websites that allegedly distributed or sold products that
infringed US copyrights or trademarks. Many of those
supposedly infringing sites were operated outside the US. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">In
addition, the US Justice Department recently spearheaded an
international effort that shut down the popular web site
Megaupload, which was owned by a Hong Kong company. The US
charged the company and its top seven executives (none of whom
was a US citizen or resident) with running an international
organised criminal enterprise that committed massive worldwide
online piracy of US copyrighted movies, TV shows, music and
software.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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