What We Do

Within the Middle East, our capabilities include:

  • Trade mark prosecution, portfolio management and related work
  • Patent and design prosecution, portfolio management and related work
  • Copyright work, particularly in the media sector
  • Contentious work, including disputes before national IP registries, Courts and Arbitral Panels
  • Anti-counterfeiting and anti-piracy work, including handling administrative and criminal enforcement actions
  • Commercialisation of intellectual property and technology, including licences and assignments of intellectual property, confidentiality and know-how agreements, research and development agreements and technology transfer agreements
  • Strategic advice on the management of intellectual property (including developing bespoke intellectual property policies)
  • Watching services, including registry, online and in-market watching and monitoring services
  • Intellectual property due diligence

Our services also extend outside the Middle East, and include:

Protecting intellectual property rights (whether through registration programmes or enforcement actions) by working with a network of agents that are suitable for our clients’ varying needs