PROCUREMENT FROM COUNTRIES THAT DENY ADEQUATE AND EFFECTIVE PROTECTION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

SEC. 852. PROCUREMENT FROM COUNTRIES THAT DENY ADEQUATE AND EFFECTIVE PROTECTION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS (a) Sense of Congress.—It is the sense of Congress that it should be a very important consideration in the procurement of property, services, or technology by the Department of Defense whether such procurement is from any person of any country which has been identified by the United States Trade Representative, on the advice of the Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks in the Department of Commerce and the Register of Copyrights, pursuant to section 182(a)(2) of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2242) as denying adequate and effective protection of intellectual property rights or fair and equitable market access to United States persons that rely upon intellectual property protection. (b) Report.—(1) If the Secretary of Defense takes any action, upon the direction of the United States Trade Representative (in consultation with the Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks and the Register of Copyrights), with respect to the procurement of property, services, or technology by the Department of Defense on the basis of the consideration set forth in subsection (a), the Secretary shall submit promptly to the committees described in paragraph (2) a report describing the nature of such action and the reasons for such action. 103 STAT. 1518 (2) The committees to which the report required by paragraph (1) shall be submitted are the Committees on Armed Services, on Finance, and on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committees on Armed Services, on Ways and Means, and on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives.