The Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) is responsible for implementing the Department's national strategies in combating computer and intellectual property crimes worldwide.
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The Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) is responsible for implementing the Department's national strategies in combating computer and intellectual property crimes worldwide. CCIPS prevents, investigates, and prosecutes computer crimes by working with other government agencies, the private sector, academic institutions, and foreign counterparts. Section attorneys work to improve the domestic and international infrastructure-legal, technological, and operational-to pursue network criminals most effectively. The Section's enforcement responsibilities against intellectual property crimes are similarly multi-faceted. Intellectual Property (IP) has become one of the principal U.S. economic engines, and the nation is a target of choice for thieves of material protected by copyright, trademark, or trade-secret designation. In pursuing all these goals, CCIPS attorneys regularly run complex investigations, resolve unique legal and investigative issues raised by emerging computer and telecommunications technologies; litigate cases; provide litigation support to other prosecutors; train federal, state, and local law enforcement personnel; comment on and propose legislation; and initiate and participate in international efforts to combat computer and intellectual property crime.
John Lynch Chief, Computer Crime & Intellectual Property SectionDepartment of Justice Main switchboard (202) 514-2000![]()
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[an error occurred while processing this directive]TThe Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) is responsible for implementing the Department's national strategies in combating computer and intellectual property crimes worldwide. CCIPS prevents, investigates, and prosecutes computer crimes by working with other government agencies, the private sector, academic institutions, and foreign counterparts. Section attorneys work to improve the domestic and international infrastructure-legal, technological, and operational-to pursue network criminals most effectively. The Section's enforcement responsibilities against intellectual property crimes are similarly multi-faceted. Intellectual Property (IP) has become one of the principal U.S. economic engines, and the nation is a target of choice for thieves of material protected by copyright, trademark, or trade-secret designation. In pursuing all these goals, CCIPS attorneys regularly run complex investigations, resolve unique legal and investigative issues raised by emerging computer and telecommunications technologies; litigate cases; provide litigation support to other prosecutors; train federal, state, and local law enforcement personnel; comment on and propose legislation; and initiate and participate in international efforts to combat computer and intellectual property crime.
John Lynch Chief, Computer Crime & Intellectual Property SectionDepartment of Justice Main switchboard (202) 514-2000
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- Justice Department Charges Leaders of Megaupload with Widespread Online Copyright Infringement(January 19, 2012)
- Modesto Man Pleads Guilty To Trafficking In Counterfeit Media(January 17, 2012)
- Alhambra Woman Found Guilty of Federal Charges for Trafficking in More Than 30,000 Dvds with Counterfeit Dolby Trademarks(January 13, 2012)
- Leader of Ninjavideo.net Website Sentenced to 22 Months in Prison for Criminal Copyright Conspiracy(January 6, 2012)
- Rochester Man Charged with Copyright Infringement(January 3, 2012)
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- Administrator of VisionTech Components, LLC Sentenced To 38 Months in Prison For Her Role in Sales of Counterfeit Integrated Circuits Destined to U.S. Military and Other Industries To 38 Months in Prison For Her Role in Sales of Counterfeit Integrated Circuits Destined to U.S. Military and Other Industries: Counterfeit Devices Were Sold to U.S. Navy and Defense Contractors(October 25, 2011)
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