(2) bilateral and multilateral cooperative ef-
forts. 
SEC. 324. SAVINGS AND REPEALS. 
(a) REPEAL OF COORDINATION COUNCIL.—Section 
653 of the Treasury and General Government Appropria-
tions Act, 2000 (15 U.S.C. 1128) is repealed. 
(b) CURRENT AUTHORITIES NOT AFFECTED.—Ex-
cept as provided in subsection (a), nothing in this title 
shall alter the authority of any department or agency of 
the United States to investigate and prosecute violations 
of laws protecting intellectual rights. 
(c) REGISTER OF COPYRIGHTS.—Nothing in this title 
shall derogate from the duties and functions of the Reg-
ister of Copyrights. 
SEC. 325. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated for each fis-
cal year such sums as may be necessary to carry out this 
title. By not later than the date on which the President 
submits to Congress the budget of the United States Gov-
ernment for a fiscal year, the IP Representative shall sub-
mit to the Committees on the Judiciary of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate the projected amount of 
funds for the succeeding fiscal year that will be necessary 
for the Office to carry out its functions. 
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TITLE IV—INTERNATIONAL EN-
FORCEMENT AND COORDINA-
TION 
SEC. 401. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ATTACHE´ S. 
The Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual 
Property and Director of the United States Patent and 
Trademark Office (in this title referred to as the ‘‘Direc-
tor’’), in consultation with the Director General of the 
United States and Foreign Commercial Service, shall ap-
point 10 intellectual property attache´s to serve in United 
States embassies or other diplomatic missions. The 10 ap-
pointments shall be in addition to personnel serving in the 
capacity of intellectual property attache´ at United States 
embassies or other diplomatic missions on the date of the 
enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 402. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF INTELLEC-
TUAL PROPERTY ATTACHE´ S. 
The intellectual property attache´s appointed under 
section 401, as well as others serving as intellectual prop-
erty attache´s of the Department of Commerce, shall have 
the following responsibilities: 
(1) To promote cooperation with foreign gov-
ernments in the enforcement of intellectual property 
laws generally, and in the enforcement of laws 
against counterfeiting and piracy in particular. 
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(2) To assist United States persons holding in-
tellectual property rights, and the licensees of such 
United States persons, in their efforts to combat 
counterfeiting and piracy of their products or works 
within the host country, including counterfeit or pi-
rated goods exported from or transshipped through 
that country. 
(3) To chair an intellectual property protection 
task force consisting of representatives from all 
other relevant sections or bureaus of the embassy or 
other mission. 
(4) To coordinate with representatives of the 
embassies or missions of other countries in informa-
tion sharing, private or public communications with 
the government of the host country, and other forms 
of cooperation for the purpose of improving enforce-
ment against counterfeiting and piracy. 
(5) As appropriate and in accordance with ap-
plicable laws and the diplomatic status of the 
attache´s, to engage in public education efforts 
against counterfeiting and piracy in the host coun-
try. 
(6) To coordinate training and technical assist-
ance programs of the United States Government 
within the host country that are aimed at improving 
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the enforcement of laws against counterfeiting and 
piracy. 
(7) To identify and promote other means to 
more effectively combat counterfeiting and piracy ac-
tivities under the jurisdiction of the host country. 
SEC. 403. TRAINING AND DESIGNATION OF ASSIGNMENT. 
(a) TRAINING OF ATTACHE´S.—The Director shall en-
sure that each attache´ appointed under section 401 is fully 
trained for the responsibilities of the position before as-
suming duties at the United States embassy or other mis-
sion in question. 
(b) PRIORITY ASSIGNMENTS.—In designating the 
embassies or other missions to which attache´s are as-
signed, the Director shall give priority to those countries 
where the activities of an attache´ can be carried out most 
effectively and with the greatest benefit to reducing coun-
terfeit and pirated products in the United States market, 
to protecting the intellectual property rights of United 
States persons and their licensees, and to protecting the 
interests of United States persons otherwise harmed by 
violations of intellectual property rights in those countries. 
SEC. 404. COORDINATION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The activities authorized by this 
title shall be carried out in coordination with the United 
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States Intellectual Property Enforcement Representative 
appointed under section 301. 
(b) REPORT ON ATTACHE´S.—The Director shall sub-
mit to the Congress each year a report on the appoint-
ment, designation for assignment, and activities of all in-
tellectual property attache´s of the Department of Com-
merce who are serving at United States embassies or other 
diplomatic missions. 
SEC. 405. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated for each fis-
cal year such sums as may be necessary for the training 
and support of the intellectual property attache´s appointed 
under section 401 and of other personnel serving as intel-
lectual property attache´s of the Department of Commerce. 
TITLE V—DEPARTMENT OF 
JUSTICE PROGRAMS 
Subtitle A—Coordination 
SEC. 501. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ENFORCEMENT OFFI-
CER. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established within 
the Office of the Deputy Attorney General in the Depart-
ment of Justice the ‘‘Intellectual Property Enforcement 
Division’’. The head of the Intellectual Property Enforce-
ment Division shall be the Intellectual Property Enforce-
ment Officer (in this title referred to as the ‘‘IP Officer’’). 
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The IP Officer shall be appointed by the Attorney General 
and shall report directly to the Deputy Attorney General. 
(b) DUTIES.—The IP Officer shall— 
(1) coordinate all efforts of the Department of 
Justice relating to the enforcement of intellectual 
property rights and to combating counterfeiting and 
piracy; 
(2) serve as the lead representative of the De-
partment of Justice on the advisory committee pro-
vided for in section 301(d)(2) and as the liaison of 
the Department of Justice with foreign governments 
with respect to training conducted under section 
522; and 
(3) carry out such other related duties that may 
be assigned by the Deputy Attorney General. 
(c) TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS.— 
(1) CRIMINAL
INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY
EN-
FORCEMENT.—There are transferred to the Intellec-
tual Property Enforcement Division those functions 
of the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property 
Section of the Criminal Division of the Department 
of Justice that relate to the enforcement of criminal 
laws relating to the protection of intellectual prop-
erty rights and trade secrets, including the following: 
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(v) Section 705 of the Communica-
tions Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 605), relat-
ing to the unauthorized publication or use 
of communications. 
(2) INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY
ENFORCEMENT 
COORDINATORS.—The Intellectual Property Law 
Enforcement Coordinators of the Department of 
Justice to whom section 521 applies shall also be in 
the Intellectual Property Enforcement Division. 
Subtitle B—Law Enforcement 
Resources 
SEC. 511. LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT GRANTS. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION.—Section 2 of the Computer 
Crime Enforcement Act (42 U.S.C. 3713) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b), by inserting after ‘‘com-
puter crime’’ each place it appears the following: ‘‘, 
including infringement of copyrighted works over the 
Internet’’; and 
(2) in subsection (e)(1), relating to authoriza-
tion of appropriations, by striking ‘‘fiscal years 2001 
through 2004’’ and inserting ‘‘fiscal years 2008 
through 2012’’. 
(b) GRANTS.—The Office of Justice Programs of the 
Department of Justice shall make grants to eligible State 
or local law enforcement entities, including law enforce-
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ment agencies of municipal governments and public edu-
cational institutions, for training, prevention, enforce-
ment, and prosecution of intellectual property theft and 
infringement crimes (in this subsection referred to as ‘‘IP– 
TIC grants’’), in accordance with the following: 
(1) USE OF IP–TIC GRANT AMOUNTS.—IP–TIC 
grants may be used to establish and develop pro-
grams to do the following with respect to the en-
forcement of State and local true name and address 
laws and State and local criminal laws on anti-pi-
racy, anti-counterfeiting, and theft of goods pro-
tected by any copyright, patent, trademark, service 
mark, trade secret, or other intellectual property 
right under State or Federal law: 
(A) Assist State and local law enforcement 
agencies in enforcing those laws, including by 
reimbursing State and local entities for ex-
penses incurred in performing enforcement op-
erations, such as overtime payments and stor-
age fees for seized evidence. 
(B) Assist State and local law enforcement 
agencies in educating the public to prevent, 
deter, and identify violations of those laws. 
(C) Educate and train State and local law 
enforcement officers and prosecutors to conduct 
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investigations and forensic analyses of evidence 
and prosecutions in matters involving those 
laws. 
(D) Establish task forces that include per-
sonnel from State or local law enforcement enti-
ties, or both, exclusively to conduct investiga-
tions and forensic analyses of evidence and 
prosecutions in matters involving those laws. 
(E) Assist State and local law enforcement 
officers and prosecutors in acquiring computer 
and other equipment to conduct investigations 
and forensic analyses of evidence in matters in-
volving those laws. 
(F) Facilitate and promote the sharing, 
with State and local law enforcement officers 
and prosecutors, of the expertise and informa-
tion of Federal law enforcement agencies about 
the investigation, analysis, and prosecution of 
matters involving those laws and criminal in-
fringement of copyrighted works, including the 
use of multi-jurisdictional task forces. 
(2) ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligible to receive an 
IP–TIC grant, a State or local government entity 
must provide to the Attorney General— 
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(A) assurances that the State in which the 
government entity is located has in effect laws 
described in paragraph (1); 
(B) an assessment of the resource needs of 
the State or local government entity applying 
for the grant, including information on the need 
for reimbursements of base salaries and over-
time costs, storage fees, and other expenditures 
to improve the investigation, prevention, or en-
forcement of laws described in paragraph (1); 
and 
(C) a plan for coordinating the programs 
funded under this section with other federally 
funded technical assistance and training pro-
grams, including directly funded local programs 
such as the Local Law Enforcement Block 
Grant program (described under the heading 
‘‘Violent Crime Reduction Programs, State and 
Local Law Enforcement Assistance’’ in title I 
of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and 
State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Ap-
propriations Act, 1998 (Public Law 105–119)). 
(3) MATCHING FUNDS.—The Federal share of 
an IP–TIC grant may not exceed 90 percent of the 
costs of the program or proposal funded by the IP– 
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TIC grant, unless the Attorney General waives, in 
whole or in part, the 90 percent requirement. 
(4) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 
(A) AUTHORIZATION.—There is authorized 
to be appropriated to carry out this subsection 
the sum of $25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 
2008 through 2012. 
(B) LIMITATION.—Of the amount made 
available to carry out this subsection in any fis-
cal year, not more than 3 percent may be used 
by the Attorney General for salaries and admin-
istrative expenses. 
SEC. 512. CHIP UNITS, TRAINING, AND ADDITIONAL RE-
SOURCES. 
(a) EVALUATION OF CHIP UNITS.—The Attorney 
General shall review the allocation and activities of the 
Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property (in this sec-
tion referred to as ‘‘CHIP’’) units that have been estab-
lished in various Federal judicial districts, with the goals 
of— 
(1) improving the effectiveness of CHIP units 
in investigating and prosecuting criminal offenses 
arising from counterfeiting or piracy activities; 
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(2) ensuring that CHIP units are established 
and funded in every judicial district in which they 
can be effectively deployed; 
(3) upgrading the training and expertise of De-
partment of Justice personnel participating in CHIP 
units; and 
(4) improving the coordination of the activities 
of CHIP units with corresponding efforts of State 
and local law enforcement agencies operating within 
the Federal judicial district in question. 
(b) REQUIREMENTS.—In addition to any initiatives 
undertaken as a result of the review conducted under sub-
section (a), the Attorney General, in consultation with the 
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, shall en-
sure that— 
(1) each CHIP unit is assigned at least 2 addi-
tional agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation 
to support such unit for the purpose of investigating 
intellectual property crimes; 
(2) each CHIP unit is assigned at least 1 addi-
tional assistant United States attorney to support 
such unit for the purpose of prosecuting intellectual 
property crimes or other crimes involved in counter-
feiting or piracy activities; 
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(3) CHIP units are established and staffed in 
at least 10 Federal judicial districts in addition to 
those districts in which CHIP units exist on the date 
of the enactment of this Act; and 
(4) an operational unit is created consisting of 
not less than 5 agents of the Federal Bureau of In-
vestigation, attached to the headquarters of the Fed-
eral Bureau of Investigation in Washington, DC, 
and dedicated to working with the Intellectual Prop-
erty Enforcement Division established by section 
501 on the development, investigation, and coordina-
tion of complex, multi-district, and international 
criminal intellectual property cases. 
(c) COORDINATION WITH STATE AND LOCAL AU-
THORITIES.—The United States attorney for each Federal 
judicial district in which a CHIP unit is in operation shall 
ensure that the activities of that unit are coordinated with 
the corresponding activities of State and local law enforce-
ment agencies operating within that Federal judicial dis-
trict in the investigation of intellectual property crimes 
and other crimes involved in counterfeiting or piracy, in-
cluding by coordinating Federal, State, and local oper-
ations and intelligence sharing to the extent appropriate. 
(d) ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ATTOR-
NEY GENERAL.—The Attorney General, in consultation 
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with the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation 
as appropriate, shall ensure the following: 
(1) All agents of the Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation, and all assistant United States attorneys, 
who are assigned to CHIP units have received ad-
vanced training, on an annual basis, in the investiga-
tion and prosecution of intellectual property crimes 
and other crimes involved in counterfeiting and pi-
racy. 
(2) A comprehensive training program on the 
development and investigation of criminal offenses 
involved in counterfeiting and piracy is provided for 
all agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 
(3) All relevant units of the Department of Jus-
tice are allocated sufficient funding and other re-
sources as may be necessary to provide expert com-
puter forensic assistance, including from nongovern-
mental entities, in investigating and prosecuting in-
tellectual property crimes in a timely manner. For 
purposes of this paragraph, the term ‘‘all relevant 
units’’ includes those officers and employees as-
signed to carry out the functions transferred by sec-
tion 502(a)(1), CHIP units, offices of the United 
States attorneys, and units of the Federal Bureau of 
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Investigation that are engaged in the investigation of 
intellectual property crimes. 
SEC. 513. TRANSPARENCY OF PROSECUTORIAL DECISION-
MAKING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General shall direct 
each United States attorney— 
(1) to review the formal or informal standards 
currently in effect in that Federal judicial district 
for accepting or declining prosecution of cases in-
volving criminal violations of intellectual property 
laws; 
(2) to consider whether the standards should be 
modified or applied more flexibly— 
(A) to ensure that significant violations are 
not being declined for prosecution inappropri-
ately; or 
(B) in light of the broader impact of indi-
vidual cases on the overall strategy to combat 
counterfeiting and piracy; and 
(3) to review the practices and procedures cur-
rently in place for providing information to com-
plainants and victims in cases and investigations in-
volving criminal violations of intellectual property 
laws regarding the status of such cases and inves-
tigations, including the practices and procedures for 
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apprising interested parties of the decision to decline 
prosecution of such cases. 
(b) CONSTRUCTION.—(1) Nothing in this section 
shall be construed to impinge on the appropriate exercise 
of prosecutorial discretion with regard to cases involving 
criminal violations of intellectual property laws or to re-
quire the promulgation of formal standards or thresholds 
regarding prosecution of any cases. 
(2) Nothing in the section shall give rise to any claim, 
cause of action, defense, privilege, or immunity that may 
be asserted by any party to Federal litigation. 
SEC. 514. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated for each fis-
cal year such sums as may be necessary to carry out this 
subtitle. 
Subtitle C—International Activities 
SEC. 521. INTERNATIONAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW 
ENFORCEMENT COORDINATORS. 
(a) DEPLOYMENT OF ADDITIONAL COORDINATION.— 
The Attorney General shall, within 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, deploy 5 Intellectual Prop-
erty Law Enforcement Coordinators, in addition to those 
serving in such capacity on such date of enactment. Such 
deployments shall be made to those countries and regions 
where the activities of such a coordinator can be carried 
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out most effectively and with the greatest benefit to reduc-
ing counterfeit and pirated products in the United States 
market, to protecting the intellectual property rights of 
United States persons and their licensees, and to pro-
tecting the interests of United States persons otherwise 
harmed by violations of intellectual property rights in 
those countries. The mission of all International Intellec-
tual Property Law Enforcement Coordinators shall in-
clude the following: 
(1) Acting as liaison with foreign law enforce-
ment agencies and other foreign officials in criminal 
matters involving intellectual property rights. 
(2) Performing outreach and training to build 
the enforcement capacity of foreign governments 
against intellectual property-related crime in the re-
gions in which the coordinators serve. 
(3) Coordinating United States law enforcement 
activities against intellectual property-related crimes 
in the regions in which the coordinators serve. 
(4) Coordinating with the activities of the intel-
lectual property attache´s appointed under title IV in 
the countries or regions to which the coordinators 
are deployed. 
(5) Coordinating the activities of the coordina-
tors with the IP Officer. 
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