Infringement on intellectual property a global threat: Dilip
Sunday, 20 June 2010
FE Report
Infringement on intellectual property is a global threat and is causing high risk to potential inventors and investors, said Industries Minister Dilip Barua Saturday.
"It is a problem in both the developed and the developing countries," the minister said.
When the least developed countries (LDCs) are lagging far behind in science and technological invention, the tendency of the people to gain by imitating and piracy is certainly a big challenge, he said adding "The situation in Bangladesh can not be an exception."
He was speaking at a day long workshop on "Colloquium for Judges on the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights" organised by intellectual property rights (IPR) project of the Ministry of Industries and the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in the city.
Creation, protection and management of IP is becoming an instrument for national development in the context of globalisation of trade and commerce and emerging knowledge world.
Developing countries have many challenges to overcome while evolving their own IP system to suit their public policy needs and development goals, Mr Barua explained.
"The country people are not so well-conversant with the IP laws and rules and awareness is the precondition for enforcement of any right and law," the minister said.
Moreover, laws were also very old which needed amendment, Mr Barua added.
Louise Van Greunen, director of WIPO said local IPR is important for the socio-economic development of the country.
Consumer protection is also needed to control imitation and piracy by enforcing laws, she added.
Dewan Zakir Hossain, secretary and his colleague ABM Khorshed Alam, additional secretary of Ministry of Industries, Jorge Nieto Rey, first secretary of European Union Delegation to Bangladesh and Enamul Hoque, registrar, Department of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks, among others, also spoke at the colloquium.
Infringement on intellectual property is a global threat and is causing high risk to potential inventors and investors, said Industries Minister Dilip Barua Saturday.
"It is a problem in both the developed and the developing countries," the minister said.
When the least developed countries (LDCs) are lagging far behind in science and technological invention, the tendency of the people to gain by imitating and piracy is certainly a big challenge, he said adding "The situation in Bangladesh can not be an exception."
He was speaking at a day long workshop on "Colloquium for Judges on the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights" organised by intellectual property rights (IPR) project of the Ministry of Industries and the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in the city.
Creation, protection and management of IP is becoming an instrument for national development in the context of globalisation of trade and commerce and emerging knowledge world.
Developing countries have many challenges to overcome while evolving their own IP system to suit their public policy needs and development goals, Mr Barua explained.
"The country people are not so well-conversant with the IP laws and rules and awareness is the precondition for enforcement of any right and law," the minister said.
Moreover, laws were also very old which needed amendment, Mr Barua added.
Louise Van Greunen, director of WIPO said local IPR is important for the socio-economic development of the country.
Consumer protection is also needed to control imitation and piracy by enforcing laws, she added.
Dewan Zakir Hossain, secretary and his colleague ABM Khorshed Alam, additional secretary of Ministry of Industries, Jorge Nieto Rey, first secretary of European Union Delegation to Bangladesh and Enamul Hoque, registrar, Department of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks, among others, also spoke at the colloquium.