AN IP PRACTICE
INSIDE A LAW FIRM
Equity is the intellectual property arm of Abdeen & Co Advocates and Legal
Consultants, working from the United Arab Emirates and Khartoum.
- POSITION
REGISTRATION AND DISPUTE, ONE ROOF
Most IP agencies stop at the registration certificate. When a mark is opposed, copied or attacked for non-use, the client is sent off to find litigation counsel who has never seen the file.
We are built the other way round. The prosecution team sits inside a law firm, so the file moves from filing to enforcement without changing hands, and the argument made at examination is the argument made in court.
The aim is plain: to be the firm Gulf and international counsel think of first when a matter reaches Africa, and the firm African rights holders trust when their brand travels out.
HOW WE WORK
- Fees published, and quoted fixed before we start
- A reply within one working day
- One named contact for the life of the file
- Reporting in the format your docketing system expects
- Deadlines diarised here, not left to the client to remember
- English and Arabic, both working languages
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OFFICES
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REGIONAL SYSTEMS
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PUBLISHED FEE LINES
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WORKING DAY TO REPLY
- O FFICES
THREE DESKS, ONE FILE
25.80° N · 55.98° E
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
HEAD CLIENT DESK
- B4-618B2, Business Center 04
- RAKEZ Business Zone-FZ, Ras Al Khaimah
- nited Arab Emirates
Where instructions arrive, scope and price are agreed, and reporting goes out. Gulf and international rights holders deal with this desk and nothing else.
15.59° N · 32.53° E
KHARTOUM
THE AFRICA GATE · FILING AND PROSECUTION
- Office 103, First / Second Floor
- Industrial Area, Kafouri
- Khartoum 11123, P.O. Box 7429, Sudan
The registry office. Sudan sits inside both ARIPO
and the Madrid Protocol, so this is the desk that
opens the continent — every regional and
international filing routes through here.
19.62° N · 37.22° E
PORT SUDAN
BRANCH · CUSTOMS AND ENFORCEMENT
- Red Sea State, Sudan
Counterfeits arrive by sea. A desk at the country’s main port keeps customs recordals live and puts us on the ground when a shipment has to be stopped.