Earlier today, Deputy Commerce Minister Nattawut Saikua declared war on intellectual property violators.
According to MCOT, the Minister announced that the National Intellectual Property Bureau would move to set up an Operations Center for the Suppression of Intellectual Property (IP) Infringement, which would in turn endeavor to prosecute Thailand’s IP pirates.
By monitoring money laundering and warehousing activities, Nattawut said he hoped that many of Thailand’s IP brigands could be brought to heel via the employment of longstanding (and loosely enforced) IP protection laws.
Thailand’s reputation as a defender of intellectual property is (ahem) less than stellar, but that in no way means this latest initiative isn’t the real deal. In other words: get your knock-off Gucci while the getting is good.
