§4349 Report on intellectual property rights enforcement

Summary

By September 30, 2016, and every year after, the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement must send a joint report to the Senate Committee on Finance, the House Committee on Ways and Means, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and the House Committee on Homeland Security. The report must say how many CBP referrals to ICE about intellectual property (IP) infringement happened in the previous year; how many investigations ICE sent to U.S. attorneys and which offices; how many of those were accepted and what happened to them; how many led to civil or criminal penalties; and what steps the agencies took to improve investigation and prosecution success. It must estimate how long the Office of Trade (under section 2084) takes to answer port questions about possible IP infringement by type of IP. The report must also summarize outreach and coordination with other federal agencies, private companies (to spot trends, train staff, and create best practices), and with foreign governments and international groups; describe efforts to handle Internet sales and small-package shipments and report the volume, value, and types of goods seized from those efforts; and summarize IP enforcement training done under section 4347 and the money spent on that training.