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An intellectual property (IP) infringement is the infringement or violation of an intellectual property right. There are several types of intellectual property rights, such as copyrights, patents, trademarks, industrial designs, plant breeders rights [1] and trade secrets.
In the U.S., large tech companies regularly infringe on smaller companies’ intellectual property (IP). Often, this has led to large court settlements that punish larger companies.
By bringing together domestic and international government agencies and private industry partners, the IPR Center presents a unified force to combat global intellectual property theft and enforce IP rights violations.
Intellectual property (IP) enforcement is the act of taking legal action when IP rights – including trademarks, copyrights, industrial designs, patents, geographical indications – and trade secrets have been infringed.
Copyright law can still be enforced if others try to create simple deviations from the original source material. When someone commits a violation or theft of intellectual property, it is referred to as infringement, if occurring with patent copyright or a trademark.
Checklist for Reporting an Intellectual Property Crime. This checklist serves as a guide for the type of information that would be helpful for a victim or a victim’s authorized representative to include when reporting an intellectual property violation to law enforcement.
Trademark infringement is the unauthorized use of a trademark or service mark on or in connection with goods and/or services in a manner that is likely to cause confusion, deception, or mistake about the source of the goods and/or services.