INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

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FACT SHEETS, REPORTS and DOCUMENTS

• 2008 Special 301 Report, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, April 25, 2008
• World Intellectual Property Day & Beyond: How the U.S. Government, Private Sector, and Academia Support International Outreach on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Foreign Press Center briefing with Wayne Paugh, Acting U.S. Coordinator for International Intellectual Property Enforcement; Brad Huther, Senior Advisor, Global Intellectual Property Center, U.S. Chamber of Commerce; and Timothy Trainer, Founder and President, Global Intellectual Property Strategy Center, Washington, D.C., April 23, 2008
• Report to the President and Congress on Coordination of Intellectual Property Enforcement and Protection (pdf), National Intellectual Property Law Enforcement Coordination Council, January 2008
• The WTO, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Access to Medicines Controversy (pdf), Congressional Research Service/Library of Congress, updated November 5, 2007
• The Economic Impact of Counterfeiting and Piracy - Executive Summary (pdf), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), June 4, 2007
• Intellectual Property: Initial Observations on the STOP Initiative and U.S. Border Efforts to Reduce Piracy (pdf), Statement of Loren Yager, Director International Affairs and Trade, Before the Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia, United States Senate, U.S. Government Accountability Office, July 26, 2006
• United States Leadership in Providing Access to Medicines (pdf), Fact Sheet, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, December 9, 2005
• Intellectual Property and Collaborative Research (pdf), Congressional Research Service/Library of Congress, August 16, 2005
• Fact Sheet: Reducing IPR [Intellectual Property Rights] Piracy and Counterfeiting Through More Effective Enforcement, Group of Eight, Gleneagles, Scotland, July 8, 2005
• U.S.-EU Working Together to Fight Against Global Piracy and Counterfeiting, The White House, June 20, 2005
• Intellectual Property Theft, 2002 (pdf), Special Report, Bureau of Justice Statistics/U.S. Department of Justice, October 2004
• Report of the Department of Justice Task Force on Intellectual Property (pdf), U.S. Department of Justice, October 2004
• Fact Sheet: Strategy Targeting Organized Piracy (STOP!) (pdf), Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, U.S. Department of Commerce, Executive Office of the President, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of State, October 4, 2004
• Intellectual Property - U.S. Efforts Have Contributed to Strengthened Laws Overseas, but Challenges Remain (pdf), United States Government Accountability Office, September 8, 2004
• Fact Sheet: Intellectual Property Rights Protection: An Overview, U.S. Department of State, January 2004
• Fact Sheet: Intellectual Property Rights Protection: A Glossary, U.S. Department of State, January 2004
• Fact Sheet: Monitoring and Enforcing Trade Laws and Agreements, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, January 2004
• Fact Sheet: U.S.-EU Madrid Protocol on Trademark Registration, The White House, May 31, 2000
• Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (pdf), U.S. Copyright Office Summary/Library of Congress, December 1998
• Copyright Law of the United States
• Patent Laws of the United States (pdf)

PUBLICATIONS

• Intellectual property symbols in the United States: copyright (©), registered trademark (®), and trademark (TM). (Geoff Brigthling/Getty Images)

  Focus on Intellectual Property Rights, posted January 2006

RELATED SUBJECTS

• Protecting Intellectual Property Rights

U.S. GOVERNMENT

• Stopfakes.gov - Strategy Targeting Organized Piracy (STOP!) - U.S. Department of Commerce
• Intellectual Property - Office of the United States Trade Representative
• Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) - U.S. Department of Justice
• Cybercrime.gov
• U.S. Copyright Office - Library of Congress
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office - U.S. Department of Commerce

SELECTED ORGANIZATIONS

• World Intellectual Property Organization
• International Intellectual Property Alliance
• American Intellectual Property Law Association
• American Bar Association - Section of Intellectual Property Law