Amala Atieh

services

• Commercial
• Litigation
• Intellectual Property

industry

• Life Sciences & Healthcare
• Retail & Consumer Goods
• Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT)

• Managed the de-registration proceeding of an agency agreement on behalf of one of the most renowned French companies in the field of manufacturing and trading in women fashion and clothing before the Agency Department at the Ministry of Economy in the UAE.
• Managed a court action on behalf of a large US firm, specialized in providing tax, valuation and financial advisory services, regarding cancellation of the trade names of two UAE auditing & accounting companies as well as claiming compensation for financial and moral damages, on the grounds of infringement of the US’ firms’ well-known trademark.
• Managed various domain name complaints before the WIPO Arbitration & Mediation Center on behalf of clients (including two of the largest media companies in MENA as well as one of the largest US Tax firms) for the cancellation or transfer of the disputed domain names which were registered and used in bad faith.
• Successfully handled the defense of varied media claims for damages filed by parties in UAE, Oman and Saudi Arabia against a well-known Media Group in relation to contents aired or published by the Media Group.
• Assisted a leading EU company - specialized in developing proprietary plant breeds – in negotiating and drafting license and grower agreements related to its plant varieties as well as advising them on IP, and in particularly plant varieties protection, strategies under the applicable UAE laws.
• Assisted one of the largest universities in the UAE on the protection of its innovations through filing and managing the protection of its patent applications.
• Assisted a prominent Australian F&B Company in the preparation and negotiation of a Franchise Agreement, as well as advising them on the license of know-how, trade secrets and other IP assets in the frame of a franchise transaction.

• LLM in Intellectual Property Laws, University of Jordan, in cooperation with World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Amman, Jordan
• Bachelor of Law, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan