Interpol launches intellectual property crime database

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Mumbai, Feb 26: With counterfeiting and piracy costing about $250 million a year, Interpol has joined hands with the US Chamber of Commerce, the US India Business Council, the Confederation of Indian Industry and the department of industrial policy and promotion to launch its database on international intellectual property (DIIP) crime here on Tuesday. Interpol is the world’s largest international police organisation with 186 countries as members.

Interpol secretary-general Ronald K Noble on Tuesday said the database would be a unique central point for private industry worldwide to provide information on intellectual property (IP) crime. One of its key functions would be to maintain reliable data on the scale of counterfeiting and piracy to determine more clearly the nature of crime against brand and copyright integrity.

Interpol's specialist units at its headquarters at Lyon in France will analyse data to seek possible links in IP crimes across different industry sectors, facilitate criminal investigations and develop strategic IP crime reports.

Noble said the protection of IP was tremendously essential. “The organised crime against innovation and creativity directly affects economic stability of growing economies. Business and economy will fail unless adequate measures for its protection are taken, and hence, a representation from countries across the globe, including countries like the US, Japan, India, China, Ireland and Brazil, attended the 2nd Annual Global Forum on Innovation, Creativity, and Intellectual Property.”

Noble said the partnership would allow law enforcement agencies, governments and industries to work together to detect and investigate more effectively criminal networks engaged in such crime.