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Customs’ IPR Enforcement. Grammar: PhrasalVerbs

Exercise 1. Before reading the text, answer these questions:

c) Do you know what intellectual property is?

d) How is it protected in your country?

Exercise 2. Read the text to check your answers.

PART I

Countries with innovative local industries almost invariably have laws to foster innovation by regulating the copying of inventions, identifying symbols, and creative expressions. These laws encompass four separate and distinct types of intangible property – namely, patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets, which collectively are referred to as “intellectual property”.

Intellectual property shares many of the characteristics associated with real and personal property. For example, intellectual property is an asset, and as such it can be bought, sold, licensed, exchanged, or given away like any other form of property. Further, the intellectual property owner has the right to prevent the unauthorized use or sale of the property. All types of intellectual property are protected on a national basis.

U.S Customs and Border Protection, a component of the Department of Homeland Security, has a multi-layered approach to IPR (Intellectual Property Right) enforcement that includes seizing fake goods at the border, pushing the border outward through audits of infringing importers, risk modeling, and cooperation with our international trading partners. CBP partners with industry and other government agencies to enhance these efforts.

The trade in counterfeit and pirated goods threatens the economy, the competitiveness of businesses, and, in some cases, national security and the health and safety of consumers. The trade in these illegitimate goods is associated with smuggling and other criminal activities, and often funds criminal enterprises.

CBP protects businesses and consumers every day through an aggressive IPR enforcement program. CBP targets and seizes imports of counterfeit and pirated goods, and enforces exclusion orders on patent-infringing and other IPR violative goods.

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