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  college students as well as faculty in programs of study and training topics that covered the entire spectrum of IPR.

GIPA also has produced seven free distance-learning modules, available on its website in multiple languages (English, Spanish, French, Arabic, and Russian); and several more are being prepared in areas such as copyright (advanced topics) and trade secrets. There have been about 42,000 hits on those modules since posted at www.USPTO.gov in early 2010.

In addition, the USPTO's Office of Policy and International Affairs provides capacity building in countries around the world and has formed partnerships with 20 national, regional, and international IPR organizations, such as the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO), Japan Patent Office (JPO), European Patent Office (EPO), German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA), Government Agencies of the People's Republic of China, Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI), the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), and WIPO. These partnerships help establish a framework for joint development of informational, educational intellectual property content, technical cooperation, and classification activities.

The Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration (ITA) collaborates with the private sector to develop programs to heighten the awareness of the dangers of counterfeit products and of the economic value of IPR to national economies. Additionally, ITA develops and shares small business tools to help domestic and foreign businesses understand IPR. ITA, working closely with other U.S. Government agencies and foreign partners, developed and made available IPR training materials in English, Spanish, and French. Under the auspices of the Transatlantic IPR Working Group, ITA worked closely with the EU's Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry to establish a Transatlantic IPR Portal so the resources of our respective governments are quickly and easily accessible to the public. All of the ITA-developed resources, including the Transatlantic IPR Portal, as well as information and links to the other programs identified in this Annex, are accessible via www.STOPfakes.gov.

In Fiscal Year 2014, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), through the National IPR Coordination Center (IPR Center), and in conjunction with INTERPOL, conducted law enforcement training programs in France, Qatar, and China. ICE-HSI trained officials and police officers from Korea, China, Greece, Spain, Morocco, Algeria, France, Qatar, Ghana, Botswana, Gambia, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, El Salvador, Colombia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Thailand, Brazil, Honduras, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Benin, Guinea, Senegal, Togo, Curacao, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Laos, and Turkey. The IPR Center also conducted advanced   76