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What can I do if my product is at risk of seizure at a trade fair?

At fairs and exhibitions a competitor can move against your stand and your goods by way of an interim injunction, usually on the strength of a trade mark, patent or design claim — asking fo…

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At fairs and exhibitions a competitor can move against your stand and your goods by way of an interim injunction, usually on the strength of a trade mark, patent or design claim — asking for the products to be seized or the display to be stopped. You can prepare from both directions.Preventively, a protective brief can be filed with the court in advance, se…

At fairs and exhibitions a competitor can move against your stand and your goods by way of an interim injunction, usually on the strength of a trade mark, patent or design claim — asking for the products to be seized or the display to be stopped. You can prepare from both directions.

Preventively, a protective brief can be filed with the court in advance, setting out your position against an injunction application that has not yet been made. The point of it is that when the court comes to decide without hearing the other side, your defence is already in the file. If an intervention does happen, we move quickly on the routes of objection and of having the measure lifted against security. Industrial property disputes are decided under the Industrial Property Law (No. 6769), and the procedure follows the Code of Civil Procedure (No. 6100). Prepare to your fair calendar, not to the incident.

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