Watchdog fails to check IPR violations.

ISLAMABAD -- Lack of support from the relevant provincial departments has undermined the performance of Intellectual Property Organisation of Pakistan as well as enforcement of copyrights laws in the country.

IPO-Pakistan is an attached department of Ministry of Commerce, but it lacks the required human resource, facilities and technology to address around 3,000 pending complaints related to illegal usage of registered brand names, logos or monograms by other companies, that amounts to infringement of law.

An official of the organisation said that intellectual property rights (IPRs) protect creations, inventions resulting from intellectual activity in the industrial, scientific, literary or artistic fields.

'However the most common IPRs include patents, copyrights, marks and trade secrets, but when somebody copies the trademark...