With thanks to good friends Saba & Co and their monthly
bulletins for February and March 2012 we have news of IPR Border Measures in
Qatar.
Law No. 17 of 2011 on Intellectual Property Rights Border Measures
came in to force on publication in the Official Gazette No. 12 of January 2012.
The report from Saba describes provisions with which practitioners will be
familiar – rights holders can record information with Customs, Customs can stop
counterfeits on sufficient evidence, decide what to do with the goods, and the
decisions of Customs can be appealed to the Court. Action against goods in
transit, goods coming from a country with whom there is a Customs union, and
parallel imports is specifically excluded.
This part of the Empty Quarter likes Customs recordals when there
is a clear process for recordal, detention, punishment and destruction.
Detentions by Customs are a significant deterrent to traders in counterfeit product.
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