Bahrain court orders former business partner to pay $4 million for intellectual property theft

TDT | Manama           

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com

The Bahrain High Civil Court has ordered a former partner in a major industrial company to pay over $4 million in damages.

The company suffered harm due to the defendant's unauthorised use of its designs and his establishment of a competing company after seizing control of its trademark.

The defendant was initially ordered to pay temporary compensation of BD50,000, but an expert opinion determined the appropriate compensation amount to be $4.3 million.

The plaintiff company, a specialized company in modern air cooling systems, entered into an exclusive contract with an American company to manufacture open-space cooling technology and obtained patent rights in several Arab and Gulf countries.

The defendant left the company and took important documents, engineering maps, drawings, and confidential operating programmes. He also made amendments to the company's external contracts, causing significant financial and reputational losses.

The plaintiff company incurred losses exceeding $4 million. The temporary judgement was in effect until the expert's report determined the extent of the losses.