The U.S. IP Criminal Enforcement Legal Resources

1. US IPR criminal enforcement legal resources: By Haiyan LiuIndiana University-Bloomington Available from Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section, United States Department of Justice Web site. Retrieved from http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/iplaws.html

2. US IPR enforcement statistics (criminal + civil + sentencing info.):
A. General descriptive statistics on the criminal enforcement of IPR in the U.S.: U.S. Department of Justice. 1999-2005. Intellectual Property Crime Report from the Attorney General's Annual Reports. Available from Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section, United States Department of Justice Web site. Retrieved Sept. 1, 2008, from http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/ippolicy.html#agannrep

B. Aggregate criminal and civil IP case statistics from 1994 to 2002: Motivans, Mark. 2004. Bureau of Justice Statistics, Intellectual Property Theft, 2002. Washington, DC : U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics. Retrieved from http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/ipt02.pdf

C. Additional criminal enforcement statistics:
the "standard analysis files" (SAF) at Federal Justice Statistics Resource Center website. The SAF datasets represent annual cohorts of suspects and defendants processed in the Federal criminal justice system, and are created from the case management files of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the U.S. Sentencing Commission, the U.S. Marshals Service, and the Drug Enforcement Agency (Bureau of Justice Statistics 2006a, 2006b, 2006c). Bureau of Justice Statistics, Federal Justice Statistics Program. 2006a. Suspects in criminal matters concluded during fiscal year 2006: MAT06OUT [Data file].
Washington D.C. : The Urban Institute (distributor). Bureau of Justice Statistics, Federal Justice Statistics Program. 2006b. Defendants sentenced under the guidelines during fiscal year 2006: SC06OUT [Data file].
Washington D.C.: The Urban Institute (distributor). Bureau of Justice Statistics, Federal Justice Statistics Program. 2006c. Defendants in criminal cases terminated during fiscal year 2006: CAS06OUT [Data file].
Washington D.C. : The Urban Institute (distributor).

D. The most recent (after 2002) civil IP case statistics: Federal Judicial Center. 2006. FEDERAL COURT CASES: INTEGRATED DATA BASE, 2006 [Data file]. ICPSR04685-v2. Washington, DC: Federal Judicial Center [producer]. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-10-09.

3. IP criminal cases in the U.S.:
Available from Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section, United States Department of Justice Web site. Retrieved from http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/ipcases.html

PS: provied by Haiyan Liu
PhD CandidateCriminal JusticeIndiana University-Bloomington