Team

Mr. Nedal Al Kharouf has been the managing Director of Baianat-IP. He consults extensively with business owners on management, operational and strategic challenges, as well as financial issues
In his role as managing Director, his main mission is to develop and implement the firm’s strategy to attain the goals and the development plans. In addition, he is responsible to maintain team members and clients’ satisfaction. He has led to the group’s growth internationally and to the geographical expansion of the company’s business activity.
Under his management, the company became an icon in the intellectual property field in the Middle East and North Africa region to count today more than 20 offices in different countries.

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Samer is a Shareholder of Baianat Intellectual Property group.

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Jihad is our Partner & country manager in Jordan Office. He has 24 years’ experience in IP field.

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Numan is our Partner & country manager in Iraq Office with a huge experience in the Iraqi market.

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Isam is our Partner & country manager in Sudan Office. He is a licensed Lawyer in Sudan with 20 years’ experience in the IP field ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
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Professional Experience:

Ms. Leema is a part of our operation management team ,she is qualified in the Auditing and responsible for 8 Offices across the Middle East & North Africa .She has a strong business acumen to transform complex problems into focused, organized solutions and a well established at creating valuable networks .

Education Background:

Ms. Leema has graduated from Al-Yamamah University-KSA with a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration, Concentration in Finance and Accounting in 2013 .

Certified in ESOL Examination from University of Cambridge 2008.

Professional Qualification: 

Intellectual Property certified from WIPO.

Member at the AIPPI and INTA .

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Amani Joined our group to become a part of our operation management team who is managing the work in 8 branches across Middle East & North Africa.

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Nazeer holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering (Business Management Engineering) at the University of Jordan. He is an Operational Manager who is based in our Regional Office.

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Mohannad has a master’s degree in financial management. He Joined our group to became a part of our management team who is handling one of the main offices in the group.

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Nawaf has a remarkable experience in trademarks prosecution and enforcements. And now he is Saudi Office Director.

Prior to joining us, Mr. ALMUTEIRI served as General Manager of Trademarks Department in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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Hifzy is a manager with more than 20 years of experience in leading teams. He is a practical manager with a great sense of customer care, in addition to a big knowledge of the IP landscape in Arabic countries and internationally.
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Waddah is a manager with more than 10 years of experience in leading teams. He is a practical manager with a great sense of customer care, in addition to a big knowledge of the IP landscape in West Bank.

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Esra is the director of our Turkey Office. She has been in our team since the establishment of our Turkey Branch on 2019.
Esra has a broad experience managing the IP portfolios of multinational clients. Also, she has a significant knowledge for carrying out the prosecution procedures at the European region.

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Zahra is the director of our UAE Office. Ms. Zahra Ragbi is active in the IP field since 2008 and has strong experience in IP prosecution, infringements proceedings, and client’s portfolio management.

In her role, Ms. zahra is managing the day to day IP processes and assisting clients developing IP strategies in the MENA region. Holder of a bachelor’s degree in international business & Communication, zahra is a polyvalent manager with a big experience both in IP and legal business development.

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Mohamed holds a certificate from the Kuwaiti College of Law in the protection of intellectual property rights. He is the Manager of our office in Kuwait with management experience for more than 17 years. He attends oppositions & appeals regarding Trademark matters with a huge experience in the IP field.

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Mohammed is an experienced manager that has proved his managerial qualities in many industries. With a degree in political sciences and international relations, Mohammed is well known for his ability to gather teams towards success.
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Ahmed Joined us in 2019 as Egypt Trademark Office Director. He is an IP expert who is registered in the table of Egyptian Economic Courts, A certified Intellectual Property trainer at the national academy of intellectual property in Egypt , Lecturer in intellectual property and trademarks & a Senior Researcher at the level of General Director of the General Directorate.

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Professional Experience:

Mr. Khaled has qualified as a Legal Consultant with more than 10 years under our group . He is responsible on all matters related to Intellectual Property .

Education Background:

Mr. Khaled graduated from Al-Azhar University with a Bachelor of Law degree in 2011.

Memberships:

Membership at the bar association of Palestine.

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Mona is a certified patent attorney, patent examiner, and litigation expert, supervising all our patent prosecutions in Egypt and some of the GCC countries. With a long experience within the Egyptian Patent Office, where Mona worked as patent examiner for 13 years, she has a wide knowledge of the Patent landscape in her country and the GCC countries. Mona is also a qualified trainer in the IP field.

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Lina is the manager of our Lebanon’s office for more than 12 years now. She is a practical manager with a great sense of customer care and communication, in addition to a big knowledge of the IP landscape in Lebanon.
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Saifeldin Joined our group as Qatar Office Director. He has a remarkable experience in trademarks prosecution and enforcements.
Prior to joining us, Mr. Hamed served as Trademark Expert in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry in Qatar with 33 years of experience.

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Professional Experience:

Mr. Abdelgadir has qualified as a lawyer and legal advisor inside our group with more than 20 years , he is advising the protection of Intellectual Property rights in Saudi Arabia ,Middle East and North Africa. and he is rendering legal advices for appropriate protection for trademarks in Saudi Arabia and other countries.

Education Background:

Graduated in Faculty of Law, University of Khartoum, Sudan, Bachelors of Laws – Second Class Honors in 1993.

Obtained Sudanese Lawyers Bar in 1994.

Memberships: 

• Member of Sudanese Lawyers Association 1995.

• Member of International Trademark Association (INTA) since 2005.

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Nadia is an outstanding lawyer with 14 years of experience in law and legal advice. She has solid background in Intellectual Property thanks to her multiple certificates and her master degree in IP law.

MEMBERSHIPS
Jordanian Bar Association
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Professional Experience:

Ms. Hala has joined Baianat-IP since 2001 , and she is qualified in handling all trademarks and legal procedures including (preparing legal appeal, oppositions before the TMO and the Court and giving legal advices).

Education Background:

Faculty of Law, Ain shams university.

Memberships:

Membership at the bar association of Egypt.

Arab Lawyers Union Member.

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Professional Experience:

Ms. Ala`a specialized in the Intellectual Property in handling the prosecution matters and providing the legal advices for the registration of Trademarks. Ms. Ala`a responsible on the legal affairs involving the writing of the legal documentations needed for the court and providing the legal advices in respect of intellectual property matters in Arab Countries. She is Dealing with all issues that fall under the governmental departments represented in the Municipality of Amman.

Education Background:

Ms. Ala`a graduated from Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan with a Bachelor of Law degree in 2009.

Completed a training course at the United Lawyers Office.

Memberships: 

Member of Jordanian bar Association since 2009 till present.

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Moataz Seif specializes in intellectual Property, Anti-counterfeiting, Border Measures, , Commercial fraud , Franchising, , IP Litigation and Arbitration, International IP Registrations . He admitted as an appeal lawyer at the Egyptian Bar and is a member of Defense Committee for the Liberties in Egyptian Bar. Has around 13 years of experience and her areas of expertise include anti-counterfeiting, IP litigation, licensing, arbitration and commercial fraud.
He is a Member of Egyptian Bar Association, Arab Bar Association, Committee of the Bar Association.

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Wessam is a lawyer with more than 10 years of experience in the IP field. She exploits her expertise and knowledge of the corporate issues to advise our clients efficiently.
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Ana Eduard is a senior legal consultant. She holds Master Degree in International Law, a Specialist Degree in International Trade Law – Unfair Competition, Certificate for representation of minors and she is active member of Serbian Bar Association since year 2010.

In her role, she is advising on a variety of intellectual property and legal matters, she is coordinating in infringement cases , handling negotiations between the parties, reviewing and drafting a range of agreements and documents, conducting trademark searches and legal reports.

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Professional Experience :

Ms. Yasmin has qualified with 14 years in Law, Legal advice and all the matters of the Intellectual property. She is handling all the prosecution matters in front of JISM, CID and Custom Department , providing the legal advices and preparing all documentation needed for the hearings in the court.

Education Background :

Bachelor’s degree in law from University of Jordan

Master’s degree in Intellectual Property from University of Jordan.

Memberships :

Member in the Jordanian Bar Association as a trainee Lawyer since September 2006

Member in the Jordanian Bar Association as a certified Lawyer since November 2008

Member in SMAS IP Group since 2011.

Member in Baianat IP Group in 2020.

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Professional Experience:

Mr. Odai is a Senior legal consultant at Baianat-IP for Legal consulting and Arbitration & Co. He has a particular interest in corporate/commercial advisory, foreign direct investment, and concession contracts in the MENA region. Mr. Odai has experienced in drafting the statements of claim and response, memorandums  of  advice as well as drafting and reviewing various commercial agreements, and a significant legal experience in litigation in various law aspects.

Education Background:

Mr. Odai graduated from Bournemouth University in the United Kingdom with a specialization in Intellectual Property Law.

Legal English Course – University of Cambridge – Cambridge, United Kingdom

Memberships

Member, Jordanian Bar Association (JBA).

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• Lubna Qarmash is a Senior Legal Consultant at Baianat for Legal consulting and Arbitration & Co. She is a qualified Jordanian lawyer, having acquired her L.L.B from the University of Jordan.  Ms. Lubna has a particular interest is to provide advice to individuals and companies in respect of their Intellectual Property rights as well as any other corporate or commercial matters as well as developing strategies to protect their rights interests in addition to enforcing the appropriate legal actions.
• Lubna’s experience includes, providing advice on Intellectual Property matters among other legal matters concerning business transactions , advisability of prosecuting or defending lawsuits, prepare and draft legal documents, such as petitions, statements and courts writes in addition to reviewing various agreements and contracts, represent clients before competent courts and administrative

Noor is a Junior Associate inside our regional office. With a significant experience in different law offices, Noor integrated our Jordan team with enough motivation to develop our legal counseling’s quality.
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Professional Experience :

Mr. Al sheikh has qualified in the Law, Legal advice and all the matters of the Intellectual property.

Education Background :

Mr. Al sheikh graduated from University of Khartoum - Sudan with a Bachelor of LLB, Laws (Common Law) .

Humanitarian diplomacy (HD) from the United Nations Organization - Khartoum, Sudan.

Memberships :

Sudanese Bar Association, Organization of the Legal Profession Council.

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Mohamed is a Junior Associate at Baianat-IP with Five years of experience in Egyptian &Gulf IP Law, Mohamed has Handling all the intellectual property inquiries and procedures and representing the esteemed clients before court Attending court , draft and review reports and other legal documents, Drafting statement of claims, statement of defense, rejoinder memos, post hearing memos and attending the hearing sessions and attending expert’s hearing and representing our client before commercial fraud bureau CFB , Member of the Egyptian Bar Association. Mohamed has been working in Labor Law , Civil Law , Corporate Law and Immigration law..
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Ms. George is a member of the Egyptian Bar Association. She offered valuable advisory IP opinions and handles a variety of cases for national and multinational clients, consulting our client with regard to various trademarks and patents matters, drafting petitions and opposition. She also specializes in drafting, reviewing and amending contracts, providing legal advices for clients worldwide, drafting legal reports and all corporate and commercial affairs in general.

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Haidy specialized in Intellectual Property Law, exposed to various IP jurisdictions specifically in Egypt and the GCC region.
Assuring top-notch legal counseling in the IP field with a broad knowledge of the Trademark scope.
Admitted in the Egyptian Bar Association and represents intellectual property disputes before Egyptian Trademark office as well as Egyptian courts.

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Mustafa Baseer is a Junior Associate at Baianat IP, Handling all the intellectual property inquiries and procedures and representing the esteemed clients before the appeals and oppositions committees at the TMO, he is admitted before the Egyptian Bar Association. Mustafa has been working as Legal Translator at an esteemed Company for two years.

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Maha Ahmed is the Head of Trademarks Department and Junior Associate in Baianat-IP Egypt. She is admitted before the Egyptian Bar Association. She has a wide experience in the Corporation field, drafting and reviewing contracts. She holds a master’s degree in Private and International Trade Law from Ain Shams University

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Khouloud is a legal advisor that has broad knowledge of general law and IP law. With her youth motivation, Khouloud proved herself in a short time as a skillful consultant and a straight-forward thinker.
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Professional Experience:

Ms. Sabrin has qualified in a various interconnected field of studies, she has 8 years of experience in providing an expert legal advice on the usage, protection and enforcement of trademarks , litigation including enforcement of the IP and defending against a claimed infringement preparation. She is a patent advisor PCT/NATIONAL PHASE/European patent from filing to grants, Annuity payment.

Education Background:

Law Degree in Public Law.

Bachelor’s Degree in arts and fundamental License of English Literatures and civilizations.

MBA in Business Administration.

Professional Qualification: 

World youth Alliance ’s Certified Training Program (CTP).

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Hadeel is an associate in our Palestine office. She holds a master’s degree in Intellectual Property and Innovation Management, in addition to a broad knowledge of the legal protection against piracy and violations in the digital world.
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Professional Experience:

Mr. Abdulhafeez has qualified as a Patent Consultant and Head of the Patent Department at BAIANAT-IP Group with a 25 years’ experience , and he is a project manager for many international clients .

Education Background:

Mr. Abdulhafeez holding a BA in Translation and Simultaneous Interpretation from the American University in Cairo.

Diploma certified in Business Administration.

Professional Qualification: 

Intellectual Property Certified from WIPO.

Attended a several Congresses in the AIPPI in Switzerland, Sweden, France and Korea.

Member for the  APIMAF & AIPPI.

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Shadya is A Patent Expert with more than 20 years of experience in the IP field. She manages Patent and Design Prosecution & Registration for the Middle East and North Africa countries, is in charge of Patent Foreign Filings on the International Level and is a specialist in patent & legal translation process.
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Randa is the head of patent department in our regional office, she has a wide experience in preparation, filing and prosecution of patent and design applications in the Middle east countries. Also, managing the patent portfolios of multinational clients , with a significant knowledge in patent prosecution strategy in the middle east, has  experience of 15 years in the field of IP (especially patents, utility models and designs).

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Arwa Rahmeh is the head of patent translation department at Baianat IP with 24 years of experience in patent field including preparing patents applications and related documents and forms in both Arabic and English, drafting responses to patent examination reports, conducting patent searches at the Patent Office using patent/design databases and official publications, etc.

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Khawla is a Head of Patent Examination Department (Regional Office). Expert in analyzing, handling, and managing patent prosecutions. Specialized in preparing and drafting Patent Office Action Responses in view of her solid background and significant knowledge of Patent Regulations in different territories in MENA region . Have a broad experience in patent translation, formulating responses to the office action and patent claims drafting. Accomplished different advanced patent courses from World Intellectual Property Organization-WIPO. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
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