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Patents Law Firm of the Year – Egypt
Maddock & Bright IP Law Office formerly Mona Bakir & Son Office is a unique IP law firm. It is
ranked amongst the most professional & long established 66 years’ law firm in Egypt, specializing in the
protection of “Intellectual & Industrial Property Rights” in Egypt, Middle East & North Africa. Our firm
fills a market gap by cleverly combining services in the field of intellectual property law and market
entry support. We provide customized, comprehensive services catered to the specific needs of foreign
companies and law firms in the MENA Zone.
Mona Bakir & Son Office, started to enter the Arabic Zone in particular GCC countries in 2000 in order
to respond to a growing demand of foreign clients that need to be assisted in what was seen as a
challenging and unreliable IP system. During the last 12 years, our firm has developed its own
understanding of the Arabic IP system so that we are now aware of its specificity and able to solve
most of the IP problems that may rise in these fast-growing countries.
Starting 2014, Mr. Abdelwahab Moustafa has lead Mona Bakir and Son office into a new partnership
resulting in a capital raise under a new name of Maddock and Bright IP Law Office. Maddock and
Bright combines the existing expertise and clientele base of Mona Bakir & Son Office with aggressive
management and expansion tactics to bring to the legal field a wider range of integrated legal
solutions, and greater regional footprint.
At present, we have 24 operating offices in the MENA region and in the year 2012 we applied the socalled
one window of services where all correspondence and invoices are handled through our Head
Office in Egypt. Cairo, whilst our offices in the MENA Region are implementing our client matters on
daily basis. Of course, the one window of services is available for POA document where the client can
provide us with just one General POA to our head office in Egypt which will enable us to handle all our
clients’ matters in all countries of our operations.
Our mass, diversity, and advanced technological tools allow us to submit full legal services to our
foreign companies and law firms. In addition to a team of specialists in various fields of law, economics
and technology, we are staffed with qualified patent and trademark attorneys, who have gained
many-year experience in establishing and enforcing intellectual property rights over patents,
trademarks, industrial designs, and copyrights as well as in such pieces of work as assignment, licensing
and litigation.
As a firm of specialists in the field of intellectual property rights, we strive to utilize our knowledge
and expertise accumulated over the past years to the fullest in order to effectively serve the interests
of our clients. It is imperative that clients be given the right advice at the right time, that we
faithfully perform tasks given to us by clients, and that we fulfill the trust and expectations of our
clients.
As an international patent attorney firm that has played an integral role in the administration of
intellectual property rights for 66 years, effectively responding to the trends of the times both in
MENA region, we will continue to strive to contribute to the advancement and development of
intellectual property rights around the world, and fulfill our social responsibilities.
Our IP law firm covers the entire spectrum of intellectual property protection services - searches, filing
applications for registration of trademarks, designs, utility models and patents, filing oppositions, filing
statements, technical translation, arguments and suits. We file law suits on behalf of foreign right
holders against infringers in MENA region.