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June 18, 2004   Current USCIB Anti-Counterfeiting and Anti-Piracy Efforts   USCIB continues to be actively engaged in the fight against product counterfeiting and media piracy.  Recent USCIB efforts in this arena include:

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Outreach to Fellow Stakeholders   ·         USCIB is making contact with a range of regional, national, multilateral and industry groups involved in anti-counterfeiting and anti-piracy efforts, to promote collaboration and coordination and thereby reduce duplication of effort and inconsistency of results.   OECD Engagement   USCIB staff and members are undertaking extensive outreach to U.S. and foreign government officials, associations and intergovernmental entities with the aim of increasing OECD involvement in the protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) by, for example, expanding and updating its 1998 study on the impacts of counterfeiting and piracy.   Working with the Business and Industry Advisory Committee (BIAC) to the OECD, USCIB is pressing for inclusion of a chapter on IPR protection, including with respect to counterfeiting and piracy, in the burgeoning OECD Policy Framework for Investment.   International Chamber of Commerce Task Force on the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights   ·         USCIB worked closely with the ICC Secretariat and the leadership of the new ICC Task Force on the Enforcement of IPRs to craft a statement (attached at Annex 1) against counterfeiting and piracy that was released at the ICC 35th Global Congress in Marrakech on June 7.   With a view to ensuring complementarity of effort and consistency of message, USCIB is fostering coordination between the ICC Task Force and the Global Business Leaders Alliance Against Counterfeiting (GBLAAC), a coalition of CEOs that participated in the Congress described below.   ·         USCIB is working with the United States government and BIAC to explore the development of an OECD anti-counterfeiting and anti-piracy instrument.  Such an instrument would be applicable to the 30 members of the OECD and could be used in outreach to non-OECD member countries. We would encourage countries such as Russia and China, which are eager to expand their relationships with the OECD, to adhere to such an instrument.   First Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting   In connection with the First Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting, hosted by the World Customs Organization and Interpol in Brussels on May 25-26, USCIB facilitated OECD Deputy Secretary General Dr. Herwig Schloegl’s participation as a panelist and worked to ensure that the Congress Outcomes Statement reflected the desire for increased OECD engagement.   ·         Through GBLAAC, USCIB is seeking to coordinate the work of the ICC Task Force with that of the Congress Steering Committee being formed to act on recommendations set forth in the Congress Outcomes Statement.   Staff contact: Emily O’Connor   ICC statement: The fight against piracy and counterfeiting of intellectual property   More on USCIB’s Intellectual Property Committee

 

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