Sec. 231. National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center
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The Secretary of Homeland Security shall— establish within the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency a National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center; and appoint an Assistant Director to head the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center. The Assistant Director of the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center shall— coordinate the investigation of sources of merchandise that infringes intellectual property rights to identify organizations that produce, smuggle, or distribute such merchandise; coordinate training with other domestic and international law enforcement agencies on investigative best practices— to develop and expand the capability of such agencies to enforce intellectual property rights; and to develop metrics to assess whether the training improved enforcement of intellectual property rights; coordinate, with the U.S.
Customs and Border Protection Agency, activities conducted by the United States to prevent the importation or exportation of merchandise that infringes intellectual property rights; support the international interdiction of merchandise destined for the United States that infringes intellectual property rights; collect and integrate information regarding infringements of intellectual property rights from domestic and international law enforcement agencies and other non-Federal sources; develop a single platform or portal to receive information regarding infringements of intellectual property rights from such agencies and other sources and a database to organize and search that information; disseminate information regarding infringements of intellectual property rights to other Federal agencies, as appropriate; develop and implement risk-based alert systems to be shared with the U.S.
Customs and Border Protection Agency to improve the targeting of persons that repeatedly infringe intellectual property rights; coordinate with the United States attorneys' offices to develop expertise in, and assist with the investigation and prosecution of, crimes relating to the infringement of intellectual property rights; and carry out such other duties as the Secretary of Homeland Security may assign. In carrying out the duties described in subsection (b), the Assistant Director of the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center shall coordinate with— the U.S.
Customs and Border Protection Agency; the Food and Drug Administration; the Department of Justice; the Department of Commerce, including the United States Patent and Trademark Office; the United States Postal Inspection Service; the Office of the United States Trade Representative; any Federal, State, local, or international law enforcement agencies the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement considers appropriate; and any other entities the Director considers appropriate.
The Assistant Director of the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center shall work with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency and other Federal agencies to conduct outreach to private sector entities to determine trends in and methods of infringing intellectual property rights. The Assistant Director shall share information and best practices with respect to the enforcement of intellectual property rights with private sector entities, as appropriate, to coordinate public and private sector efforts to combat the infringement of intellectual property rights.