Perspective
Mar. 8, 2012
US Customs and intellectual property rights protection
No sector of the U.S. economy is immune from the predatory attention of counterfeiters and infringers. By John C. Baum of Owen, Wickersham & Erickson PC
U.S. Customs has powerful tools to protect American intellectual property rights from offshore counterfeiters and infringers. Such rights include trademarks, trade dress, trade names, and copyrights. U.S. Customs has an effective network of trained intellectual property rights specialists stationed at ports and air freight hubs around the country. They are linked together through a database of recorded marks and designs. Together, they have achiev...
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