Updated Informed Compliance Publication on IPR Enforcement

(World Trade Interactive)

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has made available on its website an updated informed compliance publication on CBP’s enforcement of intellectual property rights. This publication includes sections on the counterfeit and “confusingly similar” use of trademarks, parallel imports, Lever rule protection, copyright infringement, exclusion orders, criminal enforcement, IPR recordation, disclosure of information, penalties, and importer remedies following seizure.