[governance] US Aims To Boost Its Efforts Against Overseas Infringers

[Riaz K Tayob]

*US Aims To Boost Its Efforts Against Overseas Infringers **Description: 
Available for IP-Watch Subscribers*

Published on 13 March 2012 @ 9:26 pm

   EmailShare Description: Print This Post 
<http://www.ip-watch.org/2012/03/13/us-aims-to-boost-its-efforts-against-overseas-infringers/print/>Print 
This Post 
<http://www.ip-watch.org/2012/03/13/us-aims-to-boost-its-efforts-against-overseas-infringers/print/>

By Steven Seidenberg <http://www.ip-watch.org/author/sseidenberg/> for 
Intellectual Property Watch

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

*Related Articles:*

  * Tech Industry Blasts Obama Administration, Says Legitimate
    Anti-Counterfeiting Efforts Being 'Hijacked'
    <http://www.ip-watch.org/2011/03/17/tech-industry-blasts-obama-administration-says-legitimate-anti-counterfeiting-efforts-being-%e2%80%98hijacked%e2%80%99/>
  * US Chamber Urges More IP Protection As Job Booster; Tech Supporters
    Disagree
    <http://www.ip-watch.org/2011/09/07/us-chamber-urges-more-ip-protection-as-job-booster-tech-supporters-disagree/>
  * Most-Read /IP-Watch/ Posts Of 2011 Tell Story Of International IP
    Policymaking
    <http://www.ip-watch.org/2012/01/03/most-read-ip-watch-posts-of-2011-tell-story-of-international-ip-policymaking/>

/Steven Seidenberg is freelance reporter (and attorney) who has been 
covering intellectual property developments in the US for more than 15 
years. He is based in the greater New York City area and may be reached 
at info at ip-watch.ch <mailto:info at ip-watch.ch>./

Categories: Subscribers <http://www.ip-watch.org/category/subscribers/>, 
Copyright Policy 
<http://www.ip-watch.org/category/ip-policies/copyright-policy/>, 
Enforcement <http://www.ip-watch.org/category/themes/enforcement/>, 
English <http://www.ip-watch.org/category/language/english/>, Finance 
<http://www.ip-watch.org/category/themes/finance/>, Information and 
Communications Technology/ Broadcasting 
<http://www.ip-watch.org/category/themes/information-and-communications-technology/>, 
Patent Policy 
<http://www.ip-watch.org/category/ip-policies/patent-policy/>, 
Perspectives on the US 
<http://www.ip-watch.org/category/us-perspectives/>, Technical 
Cooperation/ Technology Transfer 
<http://www.ip-watch.org/category/themes/technical-cooperationtechnology-transfer/>, 
Trademarks/Geographical Indications/Domains 
<http://www.ip-watch.org/category/ip-policies/trademarksgeographical-indications/>, 
US Policy <http://www.ip-watch.org/category/venues/us-policy/>

Description: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported 
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.igcaucus.org/pipermail/governance/attachments/20120314/20bcbd9e/attachment.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/png
Size: 704 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.igcaucus.org/pipermail/governance/attachments/20120314/20bcbd9e/attachment.png>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/gif
Size: 1035 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.igcaucus.org/pipermail/governance/attachments/20120314/20bcbd9e/attachment.gif>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/png
Size: 5281 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.igcaucus.org/pipermail/governance/attachments/20120314/20bcbd9e/attachment-0001.png>
-------------- next part --------------
____________________________________________________________
You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
     governance at lists.igcaucus.org
To be removed from the list, visit:
     http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing

For all other list information and functions, see:
     http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance
To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:
     http://www.igcaucus.org/

Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t