About the book: Customs Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights explains how Customs administrations protect intellectual property, providing a detailed guide to international standards and trends. This book highlights developments in U.S. and international customs intellectual property enforcement, and contains valuable information on statutorily resolving customs enforcement issues.
It offers answers to infrastructure questions raised by foreign officials and:
- Explains the value of customs as part of a corporate IPR enforcement strategy;
- Provides the legal framework for U.S. agencies to take action to detain, seize, forfeit, and destroy goods;
- Summarizes the effects of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 (TFTEA) on customs information disclosure, including authorizing Customs to disclose unredacted information in trademark and copyright cases clarifying Customs’ legal bases for actions to stop the importation of circumvention devices; Implementation of TFTEA: New 2018 regulatory provision outlining procedures for IPR owners to donate hardware, software and/or equipment to CBP for detection purposes;
- Recommends actions IPR owners should take to get the most out of their efforts with border enforcement officials; Describes trademark and copyright cybertheft and Customs investigative efforts, working with other federal law enforcement officials;
- Identifies changes to U.S. regulations regarding private sector donations to Customs of hardware, software and equipment for enforcement purposes;
- Describes how IPR owners can benefit from engaging border enforcement authorities globally; Highlights recent developments to extend protection to exports and goods moving in transit;
- Comments on the European Union’s regulation that went into effect in January 2014;
- Helps identify loopholes in international standards and ways to improve shortcomings;
- Provides a customs-seizure statistics chart for the U.S., European Union, and Japan;
- Provides an enforcement checklist for IPR owners to better understand national enforcement systems;
- Discusses Customs legal authority and structure to improve IPR enforcement capabilities.
About author Timothy Trainer: Writing books is a passion for attorney Timothy Trainer, who has focused on intellectual property issues in his day job for more than three decades. He has worked in government agencies and the private sector, and his assignments have taken him to 60 countries around the world. He found time to pen a few non-fiction tomes, including his first book, Customs Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights; the 15th edition was published in 2022. Thomson Reuters’ Aspatore Books published Tim’s next title in 2015, Potato Chips to Computer Chips: The War on Fake Stuff.
Fiction was a genre he always wanted to try. In 2019, Pendulum Over the Pacific, was released by Joshua Tree Publishing. “This political intrigue story is set in Tokyo and Washington, D.C., and centers on trade tensions between the U.S. and Japan in the late 1980s,” Tim explains. In 2023, his first series hit bookstores: The China Connection. Its sequel, The China Factor, hit bookstores in 2024. Learn more about him at TimothyTrainer.com.