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Office of the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator<br />
• To understand how to put “big data” to work<br />
to better understand, and minimize, commercial<br />
exploitation of copyrighted content. How to<br />
increase transparency and better insight into criminal<br />
exploitation across ad networks, payment processing,<br />
and other digital transactions in order to understand<br />
the characteristics of the illicit actor, and support<br />
efforts to preserve the integrity of the exploited<br />
platforms and services? For example, available<br />
generalized and anonymized data on terminated<br />
advertising or payment processing accounts (such<br />
as, for example, duration of account, dollar flow,<br />
general geographical location, etc.) may improve<br />
benchmarking of enforcement initiatives and enable<br />
stakeholders to identify opportunities for further<br />
advancement of underlying policy objectives.<br />
• To understand common tactics employed by<br />
operators of websites that promote counterfeit<br />
goods or unauthorized content. For example, how do<br />
illicit actors exploit various domain environments to<br />
successfully evade law enforcement through “domain<br />
name hopping” and other strategics?<br />
Research on Trade Secret Theft is Needed…<br />
• To assess the magnitude of trade secret theft. Research<br />
is needed into the scale and economic impacts of<br />
trade secret theft on the U.S. economy, including the<br />
impact to the competitiveness of U.S. exports, national<br />
economic interests, and the jobs market.<br />
• To assess the degree of cybersecurity preparedness<br />
in the private sector. Further research is needed on<br />
the share of U.S. businesses, including SMEs, that<br />
are actively engaged in cybersecurity prevention,<br />
monitoring, and resiliency planning.<br />
• To determine global remedies and procedural<br />
difficulties faced by rights holders. Comprehensive<br />
comparative legal analysis of trade secret protections<br />
and procedures around the world would increase<br />
many rights holders’ understanding of the markets<br />
in which they operate. Analysis of experiences<br />
prosecuting trade secret rights abroad, including<br />
effectiveness of administration of trade secret laws,<br />
would also benefit rights holders and policymakers.<br />
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