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09.15.2022
IPR Center partnership fights wildlife, natural capital trafficking
The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) has announced a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the University of Washington Center for Environmental Forensic Science and Homeland Security Investigations. The MOU creates an academic partnership, facilitating the exchange of institutional knowledge, research, and best practices to support the fight against wildlife and natural capital trafficking violations.
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06.17.2022
Sports fans beware: Counterfeit NHL merchandise on the rise during 2022 Stanley Cup Final
WASHINGTON – With the Colorado Avalanche and Tampa Bay Lightning competing in the 2022 Stanley Cup Final, the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) and National Hockey League (NHL) are reminding sports fans to beware of purchasing counterfeit sports-related merchandise and apparel during the championship series.
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06.06.2022
IPR Center teams up with NBA on counterfeits
As the 2022 NBA Finals tip off this week, the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)-led National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are teaming up with the NBA to caution fans to be on the lookout for counterfeiters attempting to sell unauthorized, knock-off products and tickets.
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04.22.2022
RIAA partnership expands fight against digital piracy
The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center and the Recording Industry Association of America have announced a long-term agreement expanding and formalizing an ongoing partnership on digital anti-piracy efforts to disrupt and combat all forms of digital piracy.
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04.14.2022
$1.8B in restitution levied in scheme to defraud U.S. government
Six Southern California companies have been ordered to pay $1.83 billion in restitution for participating in a conspiracy to defraud the United States through a scheme in which huge amounts of aluminum – disguised as “pallets” to avoid $1.8 billion in customs duties – were exported to the U.S. and were “sold” to fraudulently inflate a China-based company’s revenues and deceive investors worldwide.
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02.10.2022
IPR Center seizes $97.8M in counterfeit sports merchandise during annual Operation Team Player
LOS ANGELES — Today, the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center), the National Football League (NFL), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Los Angeles Sheriff Department and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) announced that more than 267, 511 counterfeit sports-related items, worth an estimated $97.8 million, were seized during Operation Team Player.
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02.07.2022
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) and the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) today announced the expansion of their current partnership with the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center). By embedding MPA and ACE personnel to the team at the IPR Center in Washington D.C. and other resources to the expanded framework, the partnering organizations are able to further expand their collective content protection efforts.
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02.03.2022
HSI identifies public safety as top priority at Super Bowl
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) is working with local, state, and federal law enforcement partners to provide essential public safety measures in the Los Angeles area, investigating human trafficking and intellectual property rights violations. The goal is to address any potential criminal threats leading up to and during Super Bowl LVI.
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12.20.2021
Operation Safety Claus seizes counterfeits worth $1M
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New Orleans seized more than 59,000 counterfeit items valued at more than $1 million during a holiday-related intellectual property rights surge operation. The enforcement operation was supported by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Louisiana Bureau of Investigation, with support from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations.
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12.09.2021
Missiles seized, Iranian regime criminal activities interrupted
The Justice Department has announced the successful forfeiture of two large caches of Iranian arms, including surface-to-air missiles, anti-tank missiles, and approximately 1.1 million barrels of Iranian petroleum products in a case investigated jointly with Homeland Security Investigations.
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12.07.2021
Operation “In Our Sites" yields counterfeit goods worth $3M
The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) and Europol have seized or shut down more than 490,475 websites illegally selling counterfeit goods and other copyright-protected material to unsuspecting consumers this past year, enhancing safety for holiday shoppers for more than a decade.
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12.07.2021
New toolkit helps consumers avoid holiday scams
The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) has launched a new holiday shopping toolkit to help consumers protect themselves from substandard or even hazardous counterfeit toys, electronics, cosmetics and other products.
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08.16.2021
Four arrested in mega-million dollar counterfeit scheme
A 14-count indictment has been unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn, New York charging seven defendants with participating in a counterfeit goods scheme totaling more than $130 million that included fake UGG boots, Nike Air Jordan sneakers, Timberland boots and Beats headphones.
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07.21.2021
The FBI, together with the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center, wants to alert consumers to be on the lookout for counterfeit flea and tick collars, as many Seresto-branded flea and tick collars have recently been reported as counterfeit by consumers.
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07.13.2021
Man sentenced for smuggling counterfeit cell phone parts
A California man has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for conspiring to smuggle counterfeit Apple, Samsung and Motorola cell phone components from China that were then sold to consumers in the U.S.
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