Taiwan and the United States signed a memorandum of cooperation in intellectual property rights enforcement , it opened a new page of cooperation in intellectual property protection！
Taiwan and the United States on February 22, 2017 in the United States capital Washington completed the “Taiwan-US intellectual property law enforcement cooperation memorandum of cooperation” signed, this move in Taiwan and the United States to strengthen intellectual property rights violations and trade fraud investigation of law enforcement cooperation, and related law enforcement Experience, technology and information sharing.
Through this signing of the memorandum, Taiwan and the United States will conduct transnational, cross-cutting and cross-professional cooperation, which is an important milestone in Taiwan’s intellectual property protection cooperation and helps to deepen the cooperation between Taiwan and the United States.
With the development of emerging technology and Internet, intellectual property crime is not only a trend of globalization, and criminal techniques continue to introduce new, so that today’s intellectual property rights law enforcement facing severe challenges. Under the framework of the Memorandum of Cooperation in Law Enforcement of Taiwan and the United States, Taiwan and the United States will jointly promote specific cooperation matters such as the exchange of law enforcement technology and practice, information sharing, training and cooperation and enhance the professional knowledge of counterfeiting import and export and copyright piracy.
In the future, the cooperation among the Ministry of Justice of Taiwan, the Ministry of Justice Bureau of Investigation, the Ministry of Interior Police Department, the Ministry of Finance Customs and Excise Department and other police officers and customs agencies, and the United States for cross-border and new types of crime investigation cooperation and related technology, Will be more closely, more effective against intellectual property rights crime, and contribute to the construction of relevant law enforcement capacity.
Taiwan has always attached importance to the protection of intellectual property rights. It is believed that with the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding on Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in Taiwan and the United States, it is possible to further deepen the relevant law enforcement cooperation between Taiwan and the United States and enable the enforcement of intellectual property rights to be implemented more effectively, thus creating a more favorable industrial innovation and creativity Cultural development of intellectual property protection environment.