The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP),Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) seeks applications for funding 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
U.S. Territories: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/23/2023
Size of the Grant: $375,000
Grant Duration: 24 months
Details:
With this solicitation, BJA seeks applications to support law enforcement agencies that have an IP enforcement task force or plan to create one. These task forces will collaborate with relevant state, local, territorial, tribal, and federal agencies, including their local U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO), to fulfill the program’s goals.
Goals
The goal of this program is to improve the coordination of IP enforcement efforts among federal, state, and 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, including campus law.
- Engage federal agencies as part of the task force or information-sharing practice including, where appropriate, local offices of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigation (ICE HSI), the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), and the USAO.
- Aggressively investigate and prosecute IP crimes with a particular focus on public health and safety, theft of trade secrets and economic espionage, and/or large-scale commercial counterfeit and piracy.
- Show possible IP links to organized crime, criminal gangs, and/or drug trafficking.
- Focus on IP thefts in the areas of trade secrets, health, and safety as well as focus on commercial online piracy and counterfeiting.
- Assist task force member agencies in enforcing criminal laws related to IP crimes, including the reimbursement of expenses incurred during criminal enforcement operations such as overtime pay and storage fees for seized evidence.
- Ensure deconfliction of participating agencies’ investigative and enforcement efforts.
- Grantees and any task force-participating agencies are required to deconflict task force investigations and events through Case Explorer, SAFETNet, or RISSafe, entities of the Nationwide Officer Safety Event Deconfliction Program
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $2,250,000
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards: $375,000
Period of Performance Duration (Months)
24
Eligible Applicants
- Special district governments
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- State governments
- City or township governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- County governments
Eligible applicants include law enforcement agencies and prosecutors. For the purpose of this solicitation, the following definitions apply:
- “Law enforcement” shall include state, local, tribal, municipal, or campus law enforcement agencies, to include prosecutors in these jurisdictions.
- “Intellectual property enforcement” means matters relating to the enforcement of criminal laws protecting copyrights, patents, trademarks, other forms of intellectual property, and trade secrets, both in the United States and abroad, including in particular matters relating to combating counterfeit and infringing goods.
- “State” means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
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