§4344 National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center

Summary

Create a National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center inside U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and appoint an Assistant Director to run it. The Assistant Director must lead and coordinate investigations to find people and groups who make, move, or sell goods that violate intellectual property rights. They must train and work with U.S. and foreign law enforcement to build enforcement skills and measure training results. They must work with U.S. Customs and Border Protection to stop infringing goods coming in or going out, help intercept such goods abroad, collect and organize information from many sources, share that information with other federal agencies, set up risk-based alerts to target repeat offenders, help U.S. attorneys with cases, and do other tasks the Secretary assigns. The Assistant Director must also reach out to private companies to learn about trends and share best practices. They must coordinate with: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (border enforcement), the Food and Drug Administration (drug and food safety), the Department of Justice (federal prosecutions), the Department of Commerce and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (trade and IP offices), the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (postal law enforcement), the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (trade policy), relevant federal/state/local/international law enforcement, and any other entities the ICE Director finds appropriate.