Ahmed Abou El-Fotouh, Legal Coordinator

Ahmed Abou El-Fotouh

Legal Coordinator

Saba & Co. IP- Egypt

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Bachelor's degree, Law
Experience
13 years, 9 months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :13 years, 9 months

Legal Coordinator at Saba & Co. IP- Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since September 2011

•Enforcing IPRs Laws for both protection & prosecution on behalf of our clients.
•Coordinating various legal issues & responding to all inquires related to IP Rights.
•Estimating the chances of success for challenging the Registrar’s decisions as well as drafting petitions & oppositions related to any official rejection and/or conditional acceptance for a T.M. application (Locally & Internationally), issued by the Registrar at the Egyptian TMO.
•Obtaining particulars of the cited marks, through TMO and WIPO (Romarin/Madrid).
•Preparing and drafting for deeds of assignments, claiming a convention priority, letters of consent, warning letters (amicably & officially).
•Translating legal documents, contracts, certificates and court’s rulings.
•Following up official decisions we receive from the Trademark Office namely; Rejections, acceptances and conditional acceptances of Trademark applications and petitions examined, also, any opposition notification of a subject Trademark).

Associate Lawyer at El-Sharkawy & Associates Law Firm
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2010 to July 2011

Undertaking all the following tasks:
• Contract Management :- Contract Negotiation, Contract Abstraction, Contract Vetting/drafting/base line management/time management, Redlining, Responding to drafts, closure of deals, etc.
• Deal Review Process:- Controlling and Analyzing contract life cycle.
- Negotiating, drafting, reviewing and translating commercial, civil and various types of contracts, with great consideration to the strictest legal and language rules.
• Following up business negotiations and projects implementation.
• Contract Visibility and Compliance.
• Software Licenses:- Drafting/Reviewing master agreement and other attached agreements pertaining to issue of a software license on lease and permanent basis.
• Conducting legal researches in relation to commercial issues.
• Contributing to the administrative management.
• Acting as an assistant for the Litigation department, handling technical and administrative stages for various types of cases.
• Acting as the main administrator and executive manager for the firm's social activity, by controlling the legal content of "The Egyptian Legal Awareness Forum" on Facebook, and its newsletter and magazine.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Law
  • at School of Law, English Department-Cairo University
  • July 2010

Specialties & Skills

Estimating
Negotiation
Protection
MS Word
MS PowerPoint

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
French
Beginner

Memberships

Egyptian Lawyers Syndicate
  • Associate Memeber
  • August 2011