A Spanish company has been given the green light to sue the State of Qatar and the Public Works Authority (Ashghal) in a commercial court in Barcelona over claims that the street lights on Al Waab Street violate its copyright.
Santa&Cole - which owns the patent for 16-meter high “Latina” street lamps designed by Spanish architect Beth Galí - has launched a website called Qatar Fakes in which it alleges that Qatar is guilty of “the biggest case of public counterfeiting in the history of design.”
Last summer, the company filed a claim in Barcelona asserting that Qatar had breached copyright when it commissioned lights similar to Galí’s to line Al Waab Street.
As well as suing for damages, Galí has also called for the Al Waab lights to be removed, claiming that they are badly made and that they cause accidents on one of Doha’s busiest roads.
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