§30104 Improved investigative and forensic resources for enforcement of laws related to intellectual property crimes

Summary

If money is available, the Attorney General, with the FBI, must add people and training to fight theft of intellectual property. They must add at least 10 FBI agents to help the Justice Department’s computer crime work, give each Computer Hacking and IP Crime Unit one more FBI agent than it had on October 13, 2008, and assign at least two assistant U.S. attorneys to each such office. They must also run ongoing training for FBI agents, including forensic training. Within 180 days after October 13, 2008, the Attorney General, working with U.S. Attorneys’ offices, the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, the FBI, and agencies like DHS, must create and start a long-term plan to go after international groups that steal intellectual property. Congress authorized $10,000,000 for each fiscal year 2009 through 2013 to carry out this work.