3510-16-P
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Patent and Trademark Office
[Docket No.: PTO-C-2024-0054]
Anti-Piracy Symposium
AGENCY: United States Patent and Trademark Office, Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of symposium.
SUMMARY: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) seeks to improve
intellectual property (IP) enforcement and reduce IP crime and infringement (USPTO 2022-2026
Strategic Plan, Goal 3, Objectives 3.3 and 3.4). As part of this effort, the USPTO will bring
interested stakeholders together for an Anti-Piracy Symposium on Thursday, January 23, 2025,
held at the USPTO in person and virtually.
DATES: The symposium will be held on Thursday, January 23, 2025, from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Interested parties wishing to attend the symposium in person must register by Thursday, January
16, 2025. Registration for remote attendance will be available through January 23, 2025.
ADDRESSES: The symposium will be held in person at the USPTO in the Clara Barton
Auditorium (South), 600 Dulany Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314. The symposium will be
physically accessible to people with disabilities. Individuals requiring accommodation, such as
sign language interpretation or other ancillary aids, should communicate their needs at least
seven business days prior to the symposium to Velica Dunn in the USPTO's Office of Policy and
International Affairs at 571-272-9300, Velica.Dunn@uspto.gov, or by postal mail addressed to:
Mail Stop OPIA, United States Patent and Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA
22314-1450, ATTN: Velica Dunn. Attendees joining in person should arrive at least a half hour
prior to the start of the symposium and must present valid government-issued photo
identification upon arrival.

The symposium will also be available in a virtual format for those wishing to attend
remotely. Prior to the symposium, information on how to register for in-person and remote
attendance will be posted on the Office of Policy and International Affairs (OPIA) section of the
USPTO website, https://www.uspto.gov/about-us/organizational-offices/office-policy-andinternational-affairs.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Holly Lance, USPTO, Office of Policy and
International Affairs, at holly.lance@uspto.gov. Please direct media inquiries to the Office of the
Chief Communications Officer, USPTO, at 571-272-8400.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The core copyright industries – which include film and
television, music, publishing, and video games – employ 9.6 million American workers and account for
3.79% of the entire U.S. workforce. These industries generate $1.8 trillion of value to the U.S. GDP,
which is 7.76% of the U.S. economy. See International Intellectual Property Alliance, Copyright
Industries in the U.S. Economy, 2022 report, available at
https://www.iipa.org/files/uploads/2022/12/IIPA-Report-2022_Interactive_12-12-2022-1.pdf.

Copyright piracy threatens the success of these industries and the Americans they
employ, costing the U.S. economy at least $29.2 billion in lost revenue annually and reducing
employment in the motion picture and television industry between 230,000 and 560,000 jobs.
See David Blackburn, Ph.D., Jeffrey A. Eisenach, Ph.D., David Harrison, Jr., Ph.D., NERA
Economic Consulting and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Impacts of Digital Video Piracy on
the U.S. Economy, June 2019, available at https://www.theglobalipcenter.com/wpcontent/uploads/2019/06/Digital-Video-Piracy.pdf.
Digital technologies have shifted the way we consume copyrighted content and have
created new opportunities for criminal syndicates to source customers and drive revenue away
from lawful owners. At the same time, technologies like artificial intelligence offer a tremendous
opportunity to combat piracy and trace the source of unauthorized content.
The USPTO will facilitate a discussion to examine the challenges piracy poses and
identify potential solutions.

Interested members of the public are invited to attend the Anti-Piracy Symposium on
Thursday, January 23, 2025, from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. The program will include briefings on recent
copyright case law, the latest tools and techniques for investigating and addressing copyright
piracy, and international copyright piracy updates.
Katherine K. Vidal,
Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent
and Trademark Office.

[FR Doc. 2024-28133 Filed: 12/9/2024 8:45 am; Publication Date: 12/10/2024]