Trade Marks &
Copyright

When our clients create a new brand or copyright work, CWB helps them to protect and enforce their rights in the region.

We can help you during the creation phase by:

• Advising on Arabic translations and/or transliterations of your trade marks
• Assisting you to navigate any moral or culturally sensitive considerations in our region
• Helping you to select a brand by conducting pre-filing searches to ensure a mark is free to use before it is launched

Our trade mark specialists draw on decades of experience to protect our clients’ trade marks across the region.

We devise bespoke regional filing and prosecution strategies – whether it be words, logos, or non-traditional marks. We take a co-ordinated approach throughout the region, to ensure that any multi-jurisdictional hurdles are taken care of in the most cost-efficient way possible.

We handle examination objections and trade mark oppositions before the Trade Marks office throughout the region, and consistently achieve high rates of registrations for our clients.

Our trade mark team advises clients on the most strategic way to enforce their rights against third party infringers in the region.

We handle all manner of contentious trade mark matters for our clients, including trade mark infringement disputes, cancellation actions, domain name disputes, as well as licensing and franchising disputes. For the most egregious cases that warrant further escalation or that result in a substantial damages award, we work closely with litigators to support our clients in civil litigation cases.

For administrative and/or criminal cases involving counterfeit goods – either online, at the border, or in the market – our trade mark team works hand-in-hand with our anti-counterfeiting team to enforce our clients’ rights.