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The IPR Council (Intellectual Property Rights Council) at the International Toy Fair is a service for the protection of intellectual property and facilitates out-of-court settlement of complaints concerning the protection of exhibitors’ industrial property rights. The purpose of the council is to clarify violations of such rights by products exhibited and/or offered (“exhibits”) by other exhibitors during the fair.

The organiser’s intention is that this service helps to resolve such disputes between the parties involved without delay and without adversely affecting the course of the fair.

The arbitration body of the IPR Council comprises 3 competent and experienced personalities. Chairman of the IPR Council is Klaus Schicker, retd. presiding judge at the higher regional court Nürnberg.

The procedure is voluntary for all exhibitors. An exhibitor wishing to initiate the procedure must accept the terms and conditions. If an exhibitor has a justified reason to fear that another exhibitor is violating his industrial property rights, he may appeal to the IPR Council. The IPR Council will accept complaints from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily for the duration of the International Toy Fair in Nürnberg.

Initial reporting of complaints: CCN West, floor 2, Fair Management.

Complaints must be made in writing as shown on the specimen form (available from January 2011).

The application must be accompanied by valid registration documents for the protection rights claimed, particularly registration certificates and records of extensions, in order to prove the validity of the protection rights in Germany.

More details are available here from January 2011.

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