Intellectual Property Law UAE
Awatif Mohammad Shoqi Advocates & Legal Consultancy will take care of your patent and copyrights registration in order to provide lawful protection locally or within the GCC. These services also include searching and evaluating art production, transferring property, dating distribution proxies, agreements, and coordinating for the registration of programs inside and outside the U.A.E.
We, at Awatif Mohammad Shoqi Advocates & Legal Consultancy, always seek to make the legal process as clear and comfortable as possible for our client.
An idea can change your life! That is certainly true especially when that idea is for a new business or any other latest innovation, but that idea must be protected at all cost as that is what differentiate you or your organization amongst others. It is indeed true that such tittle over a particular brand, an idea, innovation or any artistic project is considered as property in modern times rather intellectual property. Importantly, this property is governed and regulated by intellectual property laws issued by every nation or international treaties signed between several countries to secure such property on an international level.
Each of such property is further categorised into various areas for instance trademark, patent and copyright each of them having different rules and regulations for effective governance. It is vital for owners of these properties to register them before the relevant authorities and for that matter, they may seek assistance of Intellectual property lawyers.
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Awatif Mohammad Shoqi Advocates & Legal Consultancy, we take care of your patent and copyrights registration in order to provide lawful protection locally or within the GCC. These services also include searching and evaluating art production, transferring property, dating distribution proxies, agreements, and coordinating for the registration of programs inside and outside the U.A.E. Our Intellectual property lawyers always seek to make the legal process as clear and comfortable as possible for our client.
Intellectual property lawyers in Dubai advices on the ways to protect and utilise your intellectual property within the country and outside the country. We effectively assist our customers with accomplishing their business setups, guiding on registering their intellectual property, defensive measures, and giving advises for pragmatic solutions.
Our long drawn experience in legally representing our clients in most intricate and landmark cases in relation to intellectual property, we always ensure utmost safety and security of our clients related rights. Our team of Intellectual lawyers always intend to amicable resolve the case primarily and wherever this is not possible, we assist our clients from the very beginning of the case until we receive a favourable outcome.
The protection of intellectual property in this time is of paramount importance and it shall be protected from the day one of any business venture. Intellectual property is a basic piece of an organization’s serious edge over its opposition, and we comprehend its significance on a international scale considering market’s growth rate. The Corporate Intellectual Property lawyers guides customers on market and lawful advancements in licensed innovation, web-based media, data innovation, information security and network protection issues. We can assist you with keeping up your edge from shameless organizations that would abuse your intellectual property. We offer the administration and experience to enlist and secure brand names, licenses and copyrights across UAE and different other countries. Our customers can have confidence that we will enthusiastically secure their licensed property with every procedure or means available under the law. Our customers range from the biggest organizations to private ventures and individuals, and each gets a similar degree of attention to ensure safety of their intellectual property. We can proudly say that your research for best intellectual property lawyers in UAE ends here and you may approach our law firm without any delay.
OVERVIEW OF IP SERVICES:
The Awatif Mohammad Shoqi Advocates & Legal Consultancy intellectual property department comprises of an experienced team of lawyers, IP legal consultants, paralegals, and market researchers who are able to provide you with specialized intellectual property services in the United Arab Emirates.
Safeguarding your IP:
Intellectual property covers any original ideas, designs, discoveries, inventions and creative work produced by an individual or group. Copyright, trademark, patent and design are a few of the most common types of IP protection. IP Protection is necessary not only to protect innovations but also as a means to incentivize the creator or owner of the intellectual property by allowing them the rights to profit from the said innovation to the exclusion of all others for a definite period of time. An organization that owns IP can monetize the same through its own processes and also by allowing external parties to utilize the IP by entering into agreements for licensing and royalty rights.
Whether it is handling IPR registrations or advising on IPR strategy for monetization, you need to approach an intellectual property lawyer UAE with expertise to handle complex IPR matters. If you are seeking an intellectual property law firm Dubai or intellectual property law firm Dubai, you can reach out to the best IPR lawyers who are part of our team. Our team specializes in intellectual property matters and can assist both international and regional clients in their requirements concerning copyrights, trademarks, patents, designs, brand protection, trade secrets, domain protection, confidentiality and non -disclosure agreements.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY REGISTRATION:
Copyright Registration
An original intellectual work in literary, arts of the scientific area, whatever its description, a form of expression, significance, or purpose, is protected under the Copyright law in the UAE. The ministry of economy in the UAE allows copyright registration, and once approved, the copyright remains valid for the entire lifetime of the owner and plus fifty (50) years following the death.
Trademark Registration
Trademarks constitute any distinctive marks such as names, letters, figures, logos, titles, hallmarks, pictures, patterns, sound marks, words that are used or intended to be used to distinguish goods, products or services. The ministry of economy in the UAE allows trademark registration, and once granted, the right exists for 10 (ten) years duration and can be renewed for a further time period.
Patent Registration
Patent protection and registration is allowed for any new invention that constitutes an innovative step or an improvement on an existing invention and has utility, industrial application in different fields of technology. The International Centre for Patent Registration (ICPR) under Ministry of Economy is the competent authority to register patents in the UAE. Once granted a patent is valid for a time period of twenty years from the date of filing.
Proceeding with the registration of your IP in the UAE at the earliest and ensuring its continued use is critical to ensure maximum protection of your IP and to be able to claim priority right over others. We back your legal needs by providing our specialized services in handling complex IPR matters and achieving the best end results. Our pragmatic and result-focused approach helps client transferring complex IPR matter and partnering with us on their commercial goals.
MARKET RESEARCH:
Enforcement of intellectual property rights quite often requires a practical legal approach and this is where our clients can benefit from our market research services.
Our IP consultants can provide you with market study services in identifying infringing goods and services include counterfeit items. This includes initiating raid actions, in person research for counterfeit products including collecting samples of counterfeit goods and identifying the traders dealing in such counterfeit goods.
Market study on counterfeit products
Irrespective of the type of industry, you can obtain our services for an in-depth market study for both online and direct market searches. We will further advise you in tacking the counterfeit goods and to use the full force of the legal protection of your intellectual property rights.
Testing of counterfeit products
Our team of intellectual property consultants will also be able to guide you in testing services for counterfeit goods. Such test reports confirming counterfeit goods can further strengthen your legal action.
ENFORCEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS:
Our enforcement team is best suited to guide you in the legal measures to be undertaken for enforcing the intellectual property rights in the United Arab Emirates. Awatif M. Shoqi’s team of lawyers, will guide you in undertaking the appropriate legal action either administrative or criminal in enforcing the intellectual property protection.
Enforcement actions may comprise of filing complaint and initiating market raids to confiscate counterfeit items , destroying seized counterfeit goods and other measures through participating government agencies including the ports and customs authorities.
