The White House’s intellectual property enforcement coordinator, Victoria Espinel, submitted a wish list to Congress last week recommending 20 changes to federal intellectual property law largely aimed at ramping up criminal punishment for IP infringement.
But IP lawyers said the white paper recommendations, which ranged from increasing the sentences for economic espionage and drug counterfeiting to changing the way music royalties are paid, would likely have only a tenuous effect, if any, on the civil IP litigation or patent prosecution.
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