The Government of Egypt has announced that it is setting up a specialised digital forensic lab for intellectual property as part of its enforcement schemes of combating software piracy.
The new lab, the first of its kind in the MENA region, is mainly designed to resolve business software and internet-based piracy cases. It authentically recovers data from digital devices and unearths new fraud techniques.
The latest measures applied aim to enhance the investigative capabilities and ease the digital forensic evidence acquisition, analysis and reporting.
The cutting-edge techniques and latest technologies employed in the lab devise a roadmap for judges, prosecutors and lawyers. The practiced procedures enable them to distinguish the counterfeit products from the genuine and manage the intellectual property and digital piracy issues at hand.
The Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA), which develops the IT industry in Egypt, hosts the lab at its premises. The agency is the executive IT arm of the Egyptian ICT ministry to enforce IPR related to software products and databases.
“Over the last couple of years, ITIDA’s IPR office has undertaken comprehensive actions to increase IP enforcement with all the stakeholders like the economic courts i.e judges and prosecutors, police officers, and copyright owners,” said Dr. Mohamed Hegazy, Egypt’s IPR Office Manager.
