Detectives may be used to check IPR violations during CW Games

Neelabh Srivastava
New Delhi, Nov 22 (PTI) Private snooping agents may be
used to carry out special checks on violation of Intellectual
Property Rights on official trademarks and brand merchandise
of the Commonwealth Games next year to avoid monetary loss to
the tune of crores of rupees.

The organising committee of the games has explored the
possibility with the private detectives association.
The spies will garner information from around Indian
national capital New Delhi region where small industrial units
and individuals are said to indulge in manufacturing of
duplicate and fake logos, symbols, sporting gear, apparels and
other goods bearing official holograms and symbols.
"Violation of trademark and proprietary insignia dents
the monetary interests of the official partners and business
houses who put in huge sums of money to obtain sponsorship
rights of such events," Chairman of the Association of Private
Detectives and Investigators Kunwar Vikram Singh told PTI.
"The brand protection cell of the organising committee
of Commonwealth Games has spoken to us about the issue. We
assured them that our professional snoopers can check the
duplication and faking of official trademark and logos
efficiently," he said.
The detectives, after deploying techniques of
detection, identification, curtailment and prevention take
help of the police to conduct searches at unauthorised
premises resulting into arrests and seizures. (More) PTI NES
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