That’s is a huge accreditation in itself. Imagine together what we can do to clean up the design sector! When we have the interior design sector programme tested and running smoothly, TM-Eye will expand this pilot scheme across the music, radio, TV and writer’s sectors. TM-Eye have been bringing cases against criminals for the past seven years.
After piloting their criminal investigations in the fashion and pharmaceutical industry with huge success they have authority to add their convictions to the Police Criminal Computer – the only agency outside of the Police Authorities to possess such access.
This initiative is a true collaboration with enforcement agencies too, as around the world TM-Eye have achieved huge success through their covert operations (undercover and detective surveillance) and with their unimaginable agreements with the types of enforcement government and private agencies around the world no other agency or private company could achieve, they are wholly unique. They have the ability to shut down websites, to shut down bank accounts, to issue court summons, to carry out detective research around the world in all levels and price-points of criminal conduct and with evidence obtained, gain convictions and imprisonment of criminals.
From left to right; Harold Tillman CBE; Leo Telling, BBC, Peter O’Doherty, Detective Chief Superintendent, City of London Police
This is an amazing opportunity for the interior design world to come together and obtain the enforcement they are unable or financially unwilling to pursue. We will simply obtain authority for pursuance of a suspected crime and then bring about the criminal conviction against the thieves. I am personally very excited about this. I can track footprints and bring to justice the individuals that have duplicated my commercial ideas and gained financial reward by it – while I have competed against my own ideas – and now I am going to enforce criminal proceedings where applicable.
We have to make a start somewhere; evidence and tenacity is what is needed. TM-Eye will provide enforcement for SBID members free of charge. They receive payment from the Courts and the treasury receives payment from taxed sales rather than cash off record sales. In some cases, the licence holders for whom TM-Eye may act may not want to be involved, but if the enforcement and investigations are completed free of charge, it would be supported. So…. now it is!
You can read much about the IP Register in the months ahead through the awareness campaign run across social media and in the SBID publication; eSociety and the National press.
To register your ideas for enforcement and recovery free of charge or to buy into the full paying service which includes registration with SBID and TM-Eye partners in the project; the Intellectual Property Office, Trading Standards Office the Patent Office and global sourcing for enforcement checking and protection, or £100 per registration p.a. just register your interest at [email protected].