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Viewing cable 07MEXICO4144, IPR TRAINING FOR MEXICAN CUSTOMS AT VERACRUZ

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
07MEXICO4144 2007-08-03 21:35 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Mexico
VZCZCXRO1109
PP RUEHCD RUEHGD RUEHHO RUEHMC RUEHNG RUEHNL RUEHRD RUEHRS RUEHTM
DE RUEHME #4144/01 2152135
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 032135Z AUG 07
FM AMEMBASSY MEXICO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 8284
INFO RUEHXC/ALL US CONSULATES IN MEXICO COLLECTIVE PRIORITY
RUEHQT/AMEMBASSY QUITO PRIORITY 1314
RUEHGL/AMCONSUL GUAYAQUIL PRIORITY 0368
RUCPDOC/DEPT OF COMMERCE WASHDC PRIORITY
RUEAHLA/DEPT OF HOMELAND SECURITY PRIORITY
RUEAWJA/DEPT OF JUSTICE WASHDC PRIORITY
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 MEXICO 004144 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR EB/TPP/MTA/IPE/WALLACE/URBAN 
STATE FOR WHA/MEX 
STATE PASS USTR FOR MELLE/MCCOY/SHIGETOMI/BAE 
JUSTICE FOR CCIPS/MERRIAM/KOUAME AND OPDAT/DELUIGI 
COMMERCE FOR ITA/MAC/NAFTA/WORD AND 
ITA/MAC/IPR/WILSON/WRIGHT 
COMMERCE PASS USPTO FOR RODRIGUEZ/BERDUT/MORALES 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KIPR SNAR MX
SUBJECT: IPR TRAINING FOR MEXICAN CUSTOMS AT VERACRUZ 
 
 
Summary 
------- 
 
1. (U) The Embassy, together with the Departments of Justice 
and Homeland Security, held a five-day training seminar on 
detecting, detaining, and deterring the importation of 
pirated and counterfeit goods for Mexican customs and law 
enforcement officials at the Port of Veracruz.  The seminar 
was financed by a combination of DOJ grant money from 
State/INL and by the Embassy's Narcotics Affairs Section. 
Via a number of interactive roundtables and practical 
exercises, the course focused on the importance of 
inter-agency cooperation in protecting intellectual property 
rights at the border and in following up seizures of 
infringing goods with appropriate administrative actions and 
criminal procedures.  An instructor from the World Customs 
Organization (WCO) also explained the resources made 
available by that UN organization for tracking particular 
shipments and liaising with customs colleagues from other 
countries.  The Mexican reaction to the course was very 
positive, and the Embassy plans to hold further IPR customs 
trainings in other key Mexican ports.  End summary. 
 
Students and Instructors 
------------------------ 
 
2. (U) The July 23-27 seminar was attended by 43 Mexican 
customs officers, 24 of whom were from the Port of Veracruz 
(the country's largest port on the Gulf of Mexico), including 
Francisco Serrano, Customs Administrator for Veracruz.  The 
remaining 21 customs officers came from other major Mexican 
ports and from Customs headquarters in Mexico City.  Four 
attendees came from the Office of Attorney General of the 
Republic (PGR - rough equivalent of the Department of 
Justice), two from the IPR crimes unit and two from the 
financial crimes unit.  Four attendees were from the 
enforcement division of the Mexican Institute of Industrial 
Property (IMPI - rough equivalent of the U.S. Patent and 
Trademark Office), and another three were federal police from 
the Federal Investigative Agency (AFI) and the Federal 
Preventive Police (PFP). 
 
3. (U) The USG course instructors consisted of an IPR 
prosecutor from DOJ's Computer Crimes and Intellectual 
Property Section (Marie-Flore Kouame), a DHS/CBP 
international trade specialist from the Los Angeles Strategic 
Trade Center (Marjorie Ottenberg), a DHS/CBP officer from the 
Port of San Juan, Puerto Rico (Ludmila Rosario), and two 
DHS/ICE agents from Consulate General Monterrey (Raul Aguilar 
and Jose Silva).  DOJ also funded the participation of Renato 
Zurita, an Ecuadorian customs official affiliated with the 
World Customs Organization.  The Embassy recruited three 
Mexican IPR lawyers who represent major U.S. rights owners, 
as well as Gilda Gonzalez and Guadalupe Nava, IMPI's 
enforcement chief and her deputy, respectively, to 
participate as instructors as well.  Two of the PGR attendees 
(Leobardo Aguilar and Isaac Giron) referred to in para 2 also 
participated as instructors in various segments of the 
program. 
 
Seminar Program and Themes 
-------------------------- 
 
4. (U) Day One of the seminar was dedicated to presentations 
on the importance of IPR, a roundtable featuring PGR and IMPI 
officials on the basics of Mexican IPR law, and sessions on 
the role customs agencies can play in protecting IPR.  The 
first half of Day Two focused on how government agencies can 
improve collaboration with the rights holders, while the 
second half of the day provided instruction on how to follow 
up seizures of infringing goods with criminal investigations. 
 During both the morning and afternoon sessions, the 
attendees were broken up into four groups (with the PGR, 
IMPI, and federal police representatives evenly distributed 
among them) to work through practical exercises on profiling 
incoming shipments and launching criminal investigations. 
Day Three focused on the nuts of bolts of container 
inspection and inter-agency cooperation in the Mexican 
context.  As Mexican customs can only hold suspect goods for 
 
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a limited time on their own authority, the group exercises 
revealed the importance of their communicating effectively 
with IMPI (to find out whether the goods in question are 
pirated or counterfeit, and to possibly have IMPI confiscate 
them if they are) and the PGR, which has the power to 
initiate criminal investigations.  During the second half of 
Day Three, the attendees began working on a draft outline of 
an IPR manual for Mexican port inspectors incorporating much 
of the material covered in earlier sessions.  This manual, 
when completed, will be distributed to Mexican front-line 
customs inspectors nationwide.  Day Four began with Renato 
Zurita discussing the information resources and international 
contacts made available by the World Customs Organization. 
One lesson learned during exploration of the WCO website was 
that Mexico has not been inputting records of recent seizures 
into the WCO enforcement database, something Mexican customs 
officials admitted they needed to change.  The afternoon of 
Day Four was spent at the Port of Veracruz, where Mexican 
customs opened and inspected several recently arrived 
containers that had been identified as high-risk by the 
course participants and instructors earlier in the week.  Day 
Five was devoted to a review of lessons learned, nailing down 
next steps on finalizing the draft IPR manual for Mexican 
port inspectors, and the graduation ceremony that was 
presided over by Embassy CBP AttachQ Renee Harris and Port 
Administrator Serrano. 
 
Looking Ahead 
------------- 
 
5. (U) Evaluations by the Mexican attendees were very 
positive, particularly with respect to the heavy focus on 
inter-agency cooperation among Customs, PGR, IMPI, and the 
federal police, which will be codified in the IPR manual, a 
project which, when completed, will represent a significant 
concrete deliverable of the exercise.  Just as important were 
the personal connections made among the various agencies, and 
between the USG and Mexican participants and instructors, 
which we are confident will result in more coordinated 
Mexican IPR enforcement efforts as well as better bilateral 
cooperation in attacking cross-border flows of pirated and 
counterfeit products.  The Embassy plans to hold two more IPR 
customs seminars next year: one in Manzanillo, Mexico's 
principal Pacific port, and another in Nuevo Laredo, the 
busiest border crossing for cargo shipments. 
 
 
Visit Mexico City's Classified Web Site at 
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/wha/mexicocity and the North American 
 Partnership Blog at http://www.intelink.gov/communities/state/nap / 
GARZA