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Created
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07DUSHANBE646
2007-04-30 17:10:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Dushanbe
Cable title:
WE'RE STILL SPECIAL - 301 WATCH LIST POINTS DELIVERED TO
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UNCLAS DUSHANBE 000646
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE FOR EB/TPP/IPE BOGER AND URBAN
STATE FOR SCA/CEN
STATE PLS PASS NSC MCKIBBEN
STATE PLS PASS USTR DONNELLY, ERRION, JCHOE-GROVES, MCCOY
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ECON ETRD KIPR TI
SUBJECT: WE'RE STILL SPECIAL - 301 WATCH LIST POINTS DELIVERED TO
TAJIK OFFICIALS
REF: STATE 056553; DUSHANBE 06 2107
UNCLAS DUSHANBE 000646
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE FOR EB/TPP/IPE BOGER AND URBAN
STATE FOR SCA/CEN
STATE PLS PASS NSC MCKIBBEN
STATE PLS PASS USTR DONNELLY, ERRION, JCHOE-GROVES, MCCOY
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ECON ETRD KIPR TI
SUBJECT: WE'RE STILL SPECIAL - 301 WATCH LIST POINTS DELIVERED TO
TAJIK OFFICIALS
REF: STATE 056553; DUSHANBE 06 2107
1. Post delivered talking points in Reftel A to Tajik
government officials April 30 regarding Tajikistan's maintaining
its "Watch List" status on the Special 301 Report for 2007.
EconOffs personally delivered points to Alisher Karimov, Deputy
Head of Customs Control in the Customs Service and Gennady
Koupai, First Deputy Director of the National Patent Information
Center, Ministry of Economy and Trade. In addition, post is
delivering the translated points via dipnote to the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs.
2. Tajikistan got a head-start on next year's Special 301
report by signing into law on March 27 new measures that Koupai
claims will bring Tajikistan's IPR regime into conformity with
the TRIPS agreement. The government is currently translating
the legislation into English.
3. The Customs Service has moved from the Ministry of State
Revenues and Tax Collection to a stand-alone agency, and Karimov
reiterated his request (Reftel B) for support to train and equip
customs officials for intellectual property rights enforcement.
Koupai recently traveled to the U.S. on a U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office program on intellectual property rights, and is
an excellent interlocutor on patent and copyright issues. He
expressed satisfaction at Tajikistan's placement on the 301
Watch List, and expressed thanks to the U.S. government for its
support on intellectual property rights issues.
4. While Tajikistan has passed significant new legislation over
the past year to protect intellectual property, Tajikistan has
taken few practical steps to enforce the legislation and defend
intellectual property rights. Several crackdowns on local CD
shops notwithstanding, local authorities have few resources to
go after violators, and can use USG assistance in training and
equipping Ministry of Interior and Customs Service officers.
JACOBSON
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE FOR EB/TPP/IPE BOGER AND URBAN
STATE FOR SCA/CEN
STATE PLS PASS NSC MCKIBBEN
STATE PLS PASS USTR DONNELLY, ERRION, JCHOE-GROVES, MCCOY
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ECON ETRD KIPR TI
SUBJECT: WE'RE STILL SPECIAL - 301 WATCH LIST POINTS DELIVERED TO
TAJIK OFFICIALS
REF: STATE 056553; DUSHANBE 06 2107
1. Post delivered talking points in Reftel A to Tajik
government officials April 30 regarding Tajikistan's maintaining
its "Watch List" status on the Special 301 Report for 2007.
EconOffs personally delivered points to Alisher Karimov, Deputy
Head of Customs Control in the Customs Service and Gennady
Koupai, First Deputy Director of the National Patent Information
Center, Ministry of Economy and Trade. In addition, post is
delivering the translated points via dipnote to the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs.
2. Tajikistan got a head-start on next year's Special 301
report by signing into law on March 27 new measures that Koupai
claims will bring Tajikistan's IPR regime into conformity with
the TRIPS agreement. The government is currently translating
the legislation into English.
3. The Customs Service has moved from the Ministry of State
Revenues and Tax Collection to a stand-alone agency, and Karimov
reiterated his request (Reftel B) for support to train and equip
customs officials for intellectual property rights enforcement.
Koupai recently traveled to the U.S. on a U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office program on intellectual property rights, and is
an excellent interlocutor on patent and copyright issues. He
expressed satisfaction at Tajikistan's placement on the 301
Watch List, and expressed thanks to the U.S. government for its
support on intellectual property rights issues.
4. While Tajikistan has passed significant new legislation over
the past year to protect intellectual property, Tajikistan has
taken few practical steps to enforce the legislation and defend
intellectual property rights. Several crackdowns on local CD
shops notwithstanding, local authorities have few resources to
go after violators, and can use USG assistance in training and
equipping Ministry of Interior and Customs Service officers.
JACOBSON