Along with associates in IPR firms, Helene Mathieu Legal Consultants are engaged in all areas of UAE Intellectual Property laws, including filing and prosecuting applications before the registration authorities and specialist IP litigation.

Our legal experts have broad-ranging experience in the areas of Intellectual Property and Trademark Registration providing following services:

IP litigation:   advising on patent and trademark litigation, infringement, opposition, invalidity and nullity actions in diverse areas; obtaining judgements and settlements in major law suits in legal forums throughout the Middle East and Europe;

IP counselling and licensing:   advising on clients' intellectual property, internal processes and current R&D for potentially patentable subject matter; creating strategies for developing, managing, enforcing and defending our clients' IP portfolios including patents, designs, trade secrets, copyright, trade marks, domain names and know-how; securing IP rights from employees, independent contractors and business partners; advising on adoption of new names and global branding issues;

Transactional:   structuring, negotiating and documenting licences, technology transfer and other IP transactions, and all IP aspects of acquisitions, joint ventures and financial transactions, securitisation of IP rights; IP legal review; documenting, implementing and record of assignments, licences and security interests;

Prosecution and filing services:  worldwide and regional management of trademark portfolios; trademark filing and prosecution; co-ordinating trademark counselling and strategies to enhance clients' national and international business plans and objective; patent filing and patent prosecution on a project basis – particularly business methods and software patents for leading financial services institutions.