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The coronavirus has caused huge global economic struggles, majorly in health, legal and preventive systems. The timing makes the pandemic dire following various recessions. The Coronavirus pandemic followed the economic recovery of many countries in global trade competition where the interests of countries succeed at the expense of global humanity priorities. Especially in matters related to public health and natural environment deterioration. The pandemic has highlighted the necessity for re-evaluating societal priorities, hence the importance of this research. We applied an inductive study and analytical analysis of the preventive legal controls that contribute to addressing the importance of prioritizing public health and environmental concerns in societies. This should be at the top of state priorities.

Coronavirus (COVID-19); Legal preventive measures; Environmental Protection; Public and private interest; Precautionary Principle; “Al-Ghorm Bil Ghonm”

The Gulf States, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), the Kingdom of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), along with the Arab Republic of Egypt, have issued separate statements against the State of Qatar to imply a blockade on land, sea and air. These States attributed their decisions to security and precautionary reasons, claiming that the State of Qatar was promoting the seeds of discord and division within the societies of those countries, in addition, that Qatar was supporting terrorist organisations, despite the State of Qatar’s rejection of these allegations and its explicit response. Qatar claimed it had been subjected to a campaign of incitement based upon slander that amounted to complete fabrication and that the measures taken against it were only consequences of the policy of imposing guardianship over it by the Arab Quartet in violation of international law and the principle of international sovereignty. This study examines the repercussions of the Qatari blockade from a legal point of view to show whether the decisions of the Quartet agree with or contravene the rules and principles of international law in general. Further, whether they are contrary to the constitutions of the four blockading countries themselves or the Gulf Cooperation Council Directives, the agreements emanating from it, the well-established principles emanating from regional organisations and the resulting agreements, as well as the principles of international trade law in general related to this type of international crisis.

Qatar’s blockade; International conventions; League of Arab states; Gulf Cooperation Council; Organization of Islamic Cooperation 

This study deals with the legal provisions of Qatari Law No. 7 of 2002 on the Protection of Copyright and Related Rights. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the extent of the aforesaid law in covering those rights and then identify the suitability of these provisions to regulate and protect the copyright and related rights. This study is divided into two parts. Part one deals with copyright, and in particular, it defines the author and the work. It highlights the conditions of copyright protection, discusses the scope of the legal protection for the works, and addresses the moral and financial rights pursuant to copyright and disposes of the financial rights of the author. In short, this part of the article examines all aspects of the legal protection of copyright. Part two provides a definition of the neighbouring rights, and it addresses the rights and legal protection of owners of these kinds of rights. In conclusion, the study provides several findings and recommendations.

Copyright; Related Rights; Copyright Protection; Authorship; Ownership; Moral Rights; Financial Rights

Industrial property, as per UAE Law, includes patents, beneficial use, industrial drawing, and industrial model deeds. The invention is creating something new and novel; therefore, it should be a creative idea or activity that supersedes the existing industrial ones. UAE Law defines a patent as a protection deed granted by the state to new inventions; a beneficial use deed is defined as a protection deed granted by the state for an invention which is less than a patent. Industrial drawing is any innovative configuration of lines or colors that generates a product which may be used as an industrial or craft product, whereas the industrial model is defined as any innovative three-dimensional shape which gives a special appearance and may be used as an industrial or craft product. Procedural protection aims to provide early protection to industrial property rights against infringement. This is done by means of granting the owner of the patent, beneficial use or industrial model deeds the right to submit the application to the competent court to issue him temporary and protective procedures against whoever violates his property rights. The study focuses primarily on such procedures as per UAE Law No 17 of 2002, concerning the Regulation and Industrial Property Protection, which is referred to in this study as UAE Law. Study consists of an introduction to industrial property rights and two other sections, the first of which is on the determination of such rights as per UAE Law, whereas the second is on the temporary protection of industrial property rights as per the same law.

Patent; Procedural Protection; Industrial Property Rights; Industrial Drawings; Industrial Models; Temporary Protection; Protective Confiscation

This study explains the legal framework of patents under the new Qatari law No. (30) of 2006. It defines the concept of the invention and patent, clarifies the substantive and formal conditions of patentable inventions, states the rights and liabilities of the patentee, and clearly states the legal protection of patents under the said law.

Patent; Procedural Protection; Inventions; Intellectual Protections of patent; Industrial Property