About the book: Protecting Intellectual Property Rights Across Borders discusses border enforcement of intellectual property rights, including legal authority, standards, and procedures in the U.S. and other countries.
- It’s the only comprehensive source of how U.S. Customs protects intellectual property;
- The book also outlines what to look for in foreign systems;
- It clearly shows you how to use Customs as your first line of defense against infringing goods and covers the legal authority to detain, seize, forfeit, and destroy goods.
- Readers will also find information on how to statutorily resolve Customs enforcement issues, answer infrastructure questions that foreign officials raise, and much more.
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.