Annual Awards 2024

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
so-called 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.