With this solicitation, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) seeks to support law enforcement agencies that have an intellectual property (IP) enforcement task force or plan to create one.
Donor Name: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/12/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The Intellectual Property Enforcement Program (IPEP) assists state, local, and tribal jurisdictions in preventing and reducing intellectual property theft and related crime as well as supporting law enforcement in investigating and prosecuting IP crimes and reducing violent crime associated with IP cases and investigations.
The goal of this program is to improve the coordination of IP enforcement efforts among federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial authorities. This coordination will include IP task force members and federal agencies meeting to update, discuss, and collaborate on IP investigations, prosecutions, training, and public awareness activities. The information to be shared through these task forces must include information about targeting, investigating, analyzing, and prosecuting matters involving IP crimes as they relate to violations of state and local criminal statutes and federal prosecutions.
Objectives
- Improve coordination of IP enforcement efforts among federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial authorities.
- Establish and/or enhance state, local, tribal, or territorial IP enforcement task forces, to include campus law enforcement agencies.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Amount to Be Awarded Under This Solicitation: $2,250,000.
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount per Award: Up to $375,000.
Project Period
24 months
Eligibility Criteria
- State governments
- Special district governments
- City or township governments
- Public- and state-controlled institutions of higher education
- County governments
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Units of local government, such as towns, boroughs, parishes, villages, or other general purpose political subdivisions of a State
- State, local, tribal, municipal, or campus law enforcement agencies, to include prosecutors
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
