The Intellectual Property team at Hadef & Partners takes a holistic view to the identification, protection and registration of application intellectual property rights which subsist in the business operations of our clients, large and small.
Drawing on experience in the both the UAE and internationally, we have acted for many years across a range of industry sectors in identifying and protecting design rights, either alone or in combination with trade marks or copyright.
While very popular and utilised in Europe and elsewhere for many years, the UAE has seen a rapidly increasing awareness of design rights and the ability to protect the appearance of a product, particularly due to recent updates in the intellectual property laws of the UAE.
In taking the time to understand our clients, what they do, and how they do it, we are ideally placed to advise when design rights may be a more appropriate means of protection than via a trade mark, or where trade mark rights may not subsist at all.