Umme Salamah Tyebjee

Biography

Umme Salamah Tyebjee is a Senior Associate in the Innovation& Patents practice in Dubai. She has both a legal background, and chemical background in healthcare and life sciences. She assists clients with innovation, patents and industrial property (3IP) throughout the innovation cycle. This includes patents, industrial designs, utility models, trade secrets & confidentiality, copyright, technology transfer, 3IP valuation, 3IP auditing and others.

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Recent Experience

•  Advising international pharmaceutical companies on healthcare regulations in the Middle East and providing IP advice on data exclusivity in view of the ministerial decisions and regulations for Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and UAE;
• Advising on the patentability of medical treatment claims, surgical and diagnostic methods, polymorphs in the GCC region;
• Advising healthcare sector providers on customs laws in the UAE, and clearance issues, in the context of refusal by customs authorities to clear medicines and medical devices;
• Providing IP Ownership Advice to various Universities and professors in terms of who owns the IP with respect to various scenarios mentioned under the UAE IP Law;
• Drafting Contractual Agreements, NDA’s, Employment Agreements, IP Agreements including license agreements and R&D collaboration agreements;
• Advising and Assisting a pharmaceutical company in patent infringement and invalidation cases in the UAE and other MENA countries;
• Assisting a multinational company in an industrial design infringement case in the UAE;
• Drafting IP Policies for local Universities;
• Assisting local, regional and foreign clients in patent protection strategies of their innovations and in prosecuting of their patent applications throughout the MENA region;
• Representing a large number of regional universities, enterprises and R&D entities in the protection of their innovations and the management of their patent portfolios worldwide in various sectors of technologies;
• Preparing and advising on various Innovation Strategies for many local Universities and local inventor’s and entrepreneurs on a case by case basis;
• Advising clients on various procedural aspects of patent law and the requirements in the UAE
• Equivalent/ Clearance Searches- Conducting equivalent/ clearance searches for various multinational pharma companies in the various GCC countries, Jordan and Egypt;
• Patentability searches- Conducting Patentability Analysis mainly including novelty or patent non- infringement analysis by analyzing prior art searches;
• IP Portfolio- Patent Protection and Prosecution- Managing the patent portfolio of big pharma and multinational pharmaceutical companies in the GCC countries and MENA region. Managing the client’s patent filings, renewals, response to offices actions for the region for different life science sectors including pharmaceutical, agriculture, and healthcare;
• IP enforcement and IP litigation.