… and the us state department offers funds for overseas ip training programs

The State Department will spend over $2.5 million on 16 United States Government-sponsored international training programs in various parts of the world to combat piracy and counterfeiting efforts.

Several countries will receive the funds, for example:

Tri-Border Initiative: $100,000

A major obstacle to fighting transnational crime is poor cooperation between enforcement entities across borders. This has been the case with the nations in the Tri-Border region of Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil. The intersection of these three countries has long been a hotbed of piracy and counterfeiting of all kinds of products. Funding for this project will allow U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials to train prosecutors, police, and customs officials from the Tri-Border Region to combat intellectual property crime. By bringing together officials of all three countries, this project will improve intellectual property rights enforcement skills while fostering communication and cooperation, a joint sense of responsibility, and stronger operational efforts to fight intellectual property rights crimes.

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Posted by Douglas Sorocco, October 8, 2004 at 8:04 pm
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