19 months on, only 200 products registered under IPR

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New Delhi: It has been over 19 months since the government launched a programme asking domestic companies to register their intellectual property rights (IPRs) with the customs department to enable the authorities to seize counterfeited copies of those products and prevent them from entering the country. However, so far only 20 companies have registered a total of 200 products with the department. Alarmed by the poor response from India Inc, the government, along with the industry body Ficci would hold a series of countrywide workshops starting Friday to encourage companies to record their IPRs with the customs department. Companies from the pharmaceutical, consumer goods and software & electronics sectors would take part in the workshops. In this regard, the US, keen to thwart the import of any of the counterfeited products of American companies, is also lending a helping hand. In the US, however, companies have been filing paper applications of their IPRs with the customs department since the 1970s. The system them went online in the US from December 2005 onwards.