CFDA#
16.752
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Funder Type
Federal Government
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IT Classification
B - Readily funds technology as part of an award
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Authority
Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
Summary
The goal of the Intellectual Property Enforcement Program (IPEP): Protecting Public Health, Safety, and the Economy from Counterfeit Goods and Product Piracy is to improve the coordination of IP enforcement efforts among federal, state, and local authorities, which contribute to DOJ's priority of reducing crime. This coordination will include IP task force members and federal agencies meeting to update, discuss, and collaborate on IP investigations, prosecutions, training, and public awareness activities. The information to be shared through these task forces must include information about targeting, investigation, analysis, and prosecution of matters involving IP crimes as they relate to violations of state and local criminal statutes and federal prosecutions.
Objectives
Applicants must propose to achieve improved coordination of IP enforcement efforts among federal, state, and local authorities in their jurisdictions. Specifically, they must propose to aggressively investigate and prosecute IP crimes, with a particular focus on:
- Public health and safety.
- Theft of trade secrets and economic espionage.
- Large-scale commercial counterfeit and piracy.
Projects funded under this solicitation shall:
- Establish and/or enhance state, local, tribal, or territorial IP enforcement task forces.
- Engage federal agencies as part of the task force or information-sharing practice including, where appropriate, local offices of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigation (ICE HSI), the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), and the USAO.
- Show possible IP links to organized crime, criminal gangs, and/or drug trafficking.
- Focus on IP thefts in the areas of trade secrets, health, and safety and on commercial online piracy and counterfeiting.
- Conduct quarterly meetings of the task force members to update, discuss, and collaborate on IP investigations, prosecutions, training, and public awareness activities for which a detailed plan must be documented in the attached timeline, and provide to all relevant partners documented information about targeting, investigation, analysis, and prosecution of matters involving IP crimes as they relate to violations of state and local criminal statutes.
History of Funding
Previously funded projects can be seen at https://www.justice.gov/iptf/grants.
Additional Information
To receive priority consideration under the rural priority, applicants must describe what makes the geographic service area rural (using U.S. Census or other appropriate government data; for assistance, applicants may wish to refer to https://www.census.gov/programssurveys/geography/guidance/geo-areas/urban-rural.html), how isolated the area is from needed services, and how they will address specific challenges in rural communities.
To receive priority consideration under the poverty priority, the applicant must provide information to demonstrate that the individuals who are intended to benefit from the requested grant reside in high-poverty areas or persistent poverty counties. For purposes of this priority consideration, the term ‘‘high-poverty area'' means any census tract with a poverty rate of at least 20 percent as measured by the 2013–2017 5-year data series available from the American Community Survey of the Census Bureau (applicants may search by census tract at https://www.census.gov/acs/www/data/data-tables-and-tools/narrative-profiles/2017/) and the term ‘‘persistent poverty counties'' means any county that has had 20 percent or more of its population living in poverty over the past 30 years, as measured by the 1990 and 2000 decennial censuses and the most recent Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (applicants may search by county at https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/dec/censuspoverty.html and at https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/saipe.html)
To receive priority consideration under the Qualified Opportunity Zones priority, applicants must include information that specifies how the project will enhance public safety in the specified QOZs. For resources on QOZs, and for a current list of designated QOZs, see the U.S. Department of the Treasury's resource webpage, accessible at https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm864
Eligibility Details
Eligible applicants are:
- Special district governments
- County governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- City or township governments
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
- State governments
Deadline Details
The SF-424 and the SF-LLL will be submitted in Grants.gov by June1, 2022 at 8:59 pm. The full application must be submitted in JustGrants by June 6, 2022 at 8:59 pm.
Award Details
Up to $2,400,000 is available in FY22 for an anticipated 6 awards of up to $375,000 each. Award periods should begin on October 1, 2022 and last for a 24-month period. Cost sharing/matching is not required.
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