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Janet Fakhry, Senior IP Assistant / Paralegal

Janet Fakhry

Senior IP Assistant / Paralegal·Clyde & Co LLP

United Arab Emirates

Bachelor's degree, Accounting

Work experience

Total years of experience: 17 years, 5 months

Senior IP Assistant / Paralegal

August 2008 - August 2015

Clyde & Co LLP

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

August 2008 - August 2015

• Filing and prosecution of all trade marks related activities particularly in the MENA region.
• Preparing all types of trade mark applications including filing, publication and registration formalities in particularly in UAE and other GCC countries.
• Reporting to clients on their trade marks portfolio.
• Arranging for following up on the pending matters with the Trade Marks Office and visiting if needed.
• Following up with agents in all the stages form filing through to registration of the trade marks and updating clients.
• Arranging for filing renewals, oppositions and counterstatements.
• Handling assignments, merger, change of name and address and amendments.
• Arranging for conducting trade mark searches.
• Preparing Powers of Attorney and Liaising with corporate team for notarisations and authentications.
• Performed trade marks watch services.
• Handling Customs recordales and complains.
• Handling filing of designs and patents, preparing forms, monitoring applications and attending to the annuities. Updating clients.
• Monitoring and updating data base system “IPPO”.
• Coordinate draft invoices with the finance department and checking payment using “Elite”.
• Providing support to associates and assists in all matters in relation to trade marks, designs and patents portfolio management.
• Ensuring the smooth processing of all trade mark, design and patent applications before the Ministry of Economy.
• Managing day to day work with meeting deadlines for all the above.
• Providing training for the new staff.

Company industry:
Law Firm
Job role:
Legal

Export Consultant / Assistant Manager

September 2004 - June 2008

Intertek International LTD (Government Services)

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

September 2004 - June 2008

• Main responsibility is to control all the steps of issuing the certificates of conformity by using our issuing system (System of International Conformity Certification Program).
• Fulfilling all customers' requests in same scope.
• Performing Data Verification.
• Handling inspection requests, liaising with inspectors and arranging for samples testing (incl. obtaining quotations from laboratories).
• Main contact with our inspection offices around the world and their related correspondences.
• Responding to queries and contact with suppliers, inspection site and exporters.
• Verifying inspection reports test data, AIRs and performing completions.
• Following up on late inspections and performing inspection report discrepancy.
• Following up on discrepancies and entries.
• Verifying the report “scheduled inspection report not completed”.
• Sorting all files by zero dates.
• Responding to exporters queries and informing exporters when necessary.
• Verifying of final documents against AD documents and Inspection Reports.
• Preparing, proofing and finalising certificates including dispatch.
• Issuing re-issues and amendments upon request.
• Logging all certificates and achieving of files.
• Other various tasks linked to the pre shipment inspection process.
• Calculating the charges and contact with Exporters.
• Handling communication, correspondences with customers/exporters and following up on urgent exporters cases.
• Ensure Service Level Agreements in the department are strictly followed for both internal and external exporters' satisfaction.
• Reporting the contracts manager by doing the monthly report for SONCAP’S & Product Certificates at the end of each month and creating presentations using Power points.
• Managing and resolving customers' queries/ complaints received via - email / on-line/ phone calls or meetings.
• Developing the ability to be caring, warm and courteous to all customers regardless of class, nationality, culture, race or creed so that customers are treated equally without discrimination.
• Providing guidance and advice to junior staff, liaising with customers, operations team to provide guidance and resolve customer queries and complaints and ensure all the certificates are issued and delivered on time.
• Overall office work.

Company industry:
Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)
Job role:
Administration

Executive Secretary & Accountant

April 2003 - May 2004

Emco General Trading company

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

April 2003 - May 2004

• Handling telephone calls and organising appointments.
• Organising lessee files (Real Estate).
• Following real estate maintenance.
• Supervising laundry workers and checking accounts.
• Handling accounts books of the company.
• Following up the accounts receivable, sales invoices preparation, cheques deposit, official receipt preparation and petty cash, recording of issued cheques, payroll preparation and other administrative duties.
• Handling all reception work.

Company industry:
Real Estate
Job role:
Administration

Executive Assistant

April 1997 - July 2002

EVA company (Cosmetic & Pharmaceutical)

Alexandria, Egypt

April 1997 - July 2002

• Handling customer’s orders.
• Handling data entry using company’s software program.
• Verifying data manually comparing the actual orders with the data on system.
• Issuing customer’s sales invoices through process on system including bonuses calculations.
• Handling the accounts after the sales process by dealing with the distributors.
• Responsible for verifying of cheques and their validity.
• Receiving and handling deposit of cash cheques.
• Conducting store inventory in in a daily basis by comparing the actual balance with books balance and reporting to the sector manger.
• Doing monthly balance sheet for sold articles and the other required sheets.

Company industry:
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Job role:
Administration

Education

Faculty of Commerce, Alexandria University, Egypt

June 1996

June 1996

Bachelor's degree, Accounting

Egypt

Skills

Legal Assistance
Expert
Legal Assistance
Expert
Accountancy
Expert
Accountancy
Expert
Intellectual Property
Expert
Intellectual Property
Expert
Arabic Typing
Expert
Arabic Typing
Expert
Secretarial skills
Expert
Secretarial skills
Expert
English Typing
Expert
English Typing
Expert
• Excellent time management, attention to details, prioritising tasks, organised and accurate.
Expert
• Excellent time management, attention to details, prioritising tasks, organised and accurate.
Expert
• Computer skills : Word, Excel, Access, Outlook & Power Point
Expert
• Computer skills : Word, Excel, Access, Outlook & Power Point
Expert
• Excellent management of deadlines. • Capable to work under pressure.
Expert
• Excellent management of deadlines. • Capable to work under pressure.
Expert

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Training
DL-101 General Course on Intellectual Property
WIPO
Nov 2013
Client Care, Prioritising Workloads and Effective E-mails courses
Clyde & Co
Jun 2014
Secretarial skills
Nadia Institute
Jul 2004
Excel and Access
Nadia Institute
Jul 2004
DL-001 Primer on Intellectual Property
WIPO
Nov 2013
English and Arabic typing
Nadia Institute
Jul 2004
Power Point “International Computer Centre
Alexandria, Egypt
Jan 2007

Hobbies

  • Knitting and Crochet