George McCray Guest Speaker at June 25, 2004 CLE Luncheon Program
George McCray, Chief of Intellectual Property Rights, US Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security was the speaker at the June luncheon and CLE program held on June 25, 2004. He spoke on US Border Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs).
The first part of his talk focused on entities involved in IPR border enforcement. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is responsible for civil administration and US immigration and customs enforcement is responsible for criminal IPR border enforcement.
Mr. McCray then spoke about CBP’s enforcement of trademarks and copyrights.
He described CBP’s recordation system for trademarks and copyrights. Copyrights and trademarks must be recorded with CBP in order for them to be enforced by this entity.In the patent area, Mr. McCray touched on enforcement of ITC exclusion orders. Mr. McCray concluded this most informative talk by briefly discussing recent litigation relating to CBP, United States v. 10,510 Packaged Computer Towers, 152 F. Supp. 2d 1189, 59 USPQ 2d 1940; 23 Int’l Trade Rep. 1693, (N.D. Cal. 2001); U.S. v. 4,352, More or Less Packaged Black and While Television Sets (Case No. 3:02-cv-1179-J-32MMH) and United States v. Giles 213 F.3d 1247, 54 USPQ2d 1919 (10th Cir. 2000).
More information about CBP can be obtained at www.cbp.gov.
