Recently Jabbar signed a contract with a Chinese company to supply keyboard to the Bangladeshi market paying him a royalty on each one sold. If the customs restricts imports of pirated keyboards and software there will be huge vacuum of Bangla keyboard, Mostafsa Jabbar said, a vacuum that he hopes to fill through legal imports. 'The NBR has directed the customs department to take action under the section 15 of The Customs Act, 1969,' the circular signed by Abul Bashar Md. “This is a joyous message for me as through this text the government acknowledged my invention,” Mostafa Jabbar said. The circular reads 'following assessment of the application it is found that Ananda Computers owns the patent rights of the Bangla printed keyboard.' 'It is really a big win for me and my company Ananda Computer as I have been fighting for the last 15 years to establish my rights in international business,' Mostafa Jabbar said. Last month the National Board of Revenue (NBR) moved to protect Mostafa Jabbar's rights, issuing a circular asking the customs department to put bar on the import of pirated Bijoy software and Bijoy keyboards. However for the past two decades Mostafa Jabbar has struggled to defend his patent against pirated keyboard and software copies produced and imported mainly from China without his permission. Mostafa Jabbar claims that even in West Bengal his invention is the market leader. The first edition of the Bengali typing software popularly known as 'Bijoy' and Bangla keyboard known as the 'Bijoy Keyboard' was invented and patented by Mostafa Jabbar in 1988.Īlthough several other Bangla software programmes and keyboards have been designed since, Bijoy remains the most popular, especially among professional users. The move is being seen as a key step in the protection of local intellectual property rights in a country where inventors and software designers struggle to gain an income for their ideas. The inventor of the most popular Bangla computer keyboard has won a long legal battle to protect his design and software, with the government to stop pirated Bangla language keyboards from entering the country. For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel.

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