§4344 National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center

Summary

The Secretary of Homeland Security must create a National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center inside ICE and appoint an Assistant Director to run it. The Assistant Director must lead investigations into sources of counterfeit or pirated goods, train and measure the skills of domestic and foreign law enforcement, work with U.S. Customs and Border Protection to stop infringing goods at the border, help stop such goods overseas before they reach the United States, gather and organize intelligence from government and non‑government sources, share that information with other federal agencies, build risk‑based alert systems with CBP to target repeat offenders, help U.S. attorneys with prosecutions, and do other tasks the Secretary assigns. The Assistant Director must coordinate with agencies such as U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Justice, the Department of Commerce (including the Patent and Trademark Office), the Postal Inspection Service, the U.S. Trade Representative, other law enforcement at all levels, and any other entities the ICE Director chooses. The Assistant Director must also work with federal partners to gather trends from private companies and share enforcement best practices with the private sector.