US Patent & Trademark Office: "Criminal Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in the Digital Environment" Workshop

$119.3K USD

Funder	Department of Commerce
Recipient Organization	U.S. Government - Department of Commerce
Country	Eastern Europe Region
Start Date	Mar 10, 2009
End Date	Oct 27, 2014
Duration	2,057 days
Number of Grantees	2
Roles	Recipient
Data Source	US Foreign Aid
Grant ID	`71728-45`

Grant Description

Location: Helsinki, Finland. Training Recipient: police, prosecutors, and customs officials.

USPTO sponsored a two-day workshop which brought together 60 Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian, UK and U.S. law enforcement officials, prosecutors, intellectual property experts and industry representatives to discuss and share knowledge and practical experiences of effective investigation and prosecution of both copyright piracy in the electronic environment and trademark counterfeiting over the internet.

Sponsors: U.S. Department of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).