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19 U.S.C. § 4347 — Personnel dedicated to the enforcement of intellectual property rights

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19 U.S.C. § 4347 — Personnel dedicated to the enforcement of intellectual property rights

**(a) Personnel of U.S. Customs and Border Protection** The Commissioner and the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall ensure that sufficient personnel are assigned throughout U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, respectively, who have responsibility for preventing the importation into the United States of merchandise that infringes intellectual property rights. **(b) Staffing of National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center** The Commissioner shall— (1) assign not fewer than 3 full-time employees of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center established under [section 4344 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title19-section4344&num=0&edition=prelim); and (2) ensure that sufficient personnel are assigned to United States ports of entry to carry out the directives of the Center.

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19 U.S.C. § 4344 — Enforcement by U.S. Customs and Border Protection of works for which copyright registration is pending

Not later than the date that is 180 days after February 24, 2016, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall authorize a process pursuant to which the Commissioner shall enforce a copyright for which the owner has submitted an application for registration under title 17 with the United States Copyright Office, to the same extent and in the same manner as if the copyright were registered with the Copyright Office, including by sharing information, images, and samples of merchandise suspected of infringing the copyright under [section 1628a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title19-section1628a&num=0&edition=prelim).

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19 U.S.C. § 4350 — Report on intellectual property rights enforcement

Not later than September 30, 2016, and annually thereafter, the Commissioner and the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall jointly submit to the Committee on Finance of the Senate, the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate, and the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives a report that contains the following: (1) With respect to the enforcement of intellectual property rights, the following: (A) The number of referrals, during the preceding year, from U.S. Customs and Border Protection to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement relating to infringement of intellectual property rights. (B) The number of investigations relating to the infringement of intellectual property rights referred by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to a United States attorney for prosecution and the United States attorneys to which those investigations were referred. (C) The number of such investigations accepted by each such United States attorney and the status or outcome of each such investigation. (D) The number of such investigations that resulted in the imposition of civil or criminal penalties. (E) A description of the efforts of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to improve the success rates of investigations and prosecutions relating to the infringement of intellectual property rights. (2) An estimate of the average time required by the Office of Trade established under [section 2084 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title19-section2084&num=0&edition=prelim) to respond to a request from port personnel for advice with respect to whether merc

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19 U.S.C. § 4347 — Training with respect to the enforcement

Page 1104 TITLE 19—CUSTOMS DUTIES § 4346 clude in the joint strategic plan required by sec- tion 4314 of this title— (1) a description of the efforts of the Depart- ment of Homeland Security to enforce intel- lectual property rights; (2) a list of the 10 United States ports of entry at which U.S. Customs and Border Pro- tection has seized the most merchandise, both by volume and by value, that infringes intel- lectual property rights during the most recent 2-year period for which data are available; and (3) a recommendation for the optimal alloca- tion of personnel, resources, and technology to ensure that U.S. Customs and Border Protec- tion and U.S. Immigration and Customs En- forcement are adequately enforcing intellec- tual property rights. (Pub. L. 114–125, title III, § 306, Feb. 24, 2016, 130 Stat. 152.) § 4346. Personnel dedicated to the enforcement of intellectual property rights (a) Personnel of U.S. Customs and Border Pro- tection The Commissioner and the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall en- sure that sufficient personnel are assigned throughout U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforce- ment, respectively, who have responsibility for preventing the importation into the United States of merchandise that infringes intellec- tual property rights. (b) Staffing of National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center The Commissioner shall— (1) assign not fewer than 3 full-time employ- ees of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to the National Intellectual Property Rights Co- ordination Center established under section 4344 of this title; and (2) ensure that sufficient personnel are as- signed to United States ports of entry to carry out the directives of the Center. (Pub. L. 1

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