Service Overview
For more than 75 years, UTMPS has been the partner global brands rely on to defend what matters most: their ideas, their market position, and the integrity of their reputation.
Our award-winning litigators lead some of the most significant IP disputes across the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa, bringing together decades of trial experience, in-depth knowledge of the legal systems of each country, understanding of local practices, thorough knowledge and technical fluency across every major industry.
From complex multi-party trademark litigation to high-stakes anti-counterfeiting actions, patent, design and copyright enforcement, administrative appeals, GI, PBR and domain name disputes, we deliver strategic, fast, and decisive results in some of the world’s most challenging jurisdictions
Wherever our clients operate, we protect their rights with the same conviction: relentlessly, intelligently, and with absolute precision.
Our Capabilities
- Trademark infringement & validity disputes
- Anti-counterfeiting & brand protection
- Trade name and unfair competition actions
- Patent enforcement strategies
- Design infringement proceedings
- Appeals before trademark committees and courts
- Administrative and judicial cancellations
- Domain name and online infringement
- GI and PBR infringement matters
Local Depth. Regional Reach. Real Results.
Award-winning litigators
- We are locally licensed and appellate-level litigators who are consistently recognised as IP Stars, WTR1000, Managing IP, IAM Patent 1000, and regional legal rankings.
Unmatched regional coverage
- With litigation teams across the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa, we enforce rights.
Strategic and Practical
- Our approach is strategic and commercially grounded. We will avoid unnecessary costs while ensuring that the client’s rights are fully protected.
Representative Matters
- Successfully represented several global technology companies in stopping infringement of their iconic trademark and logos.
- Acted for a regional electronics manufacturer in a multi-year dispute that advanced through all levels of review, culminating in the Court of Cassation confirming the registrability of the client’s composite mark.
- Successfully represented a major regional retailer in opposing several conflicting filings across the MENA region, strengthening protection across the client’s extensive portfolio of 3,500 + marks.
- Executed nationwide seizure operations across Middle East, South Asian regions against entities selling counterfeit FMCG, automotive, chemical, pharmaceutical, fashion, sports goods, and electronic equipment, resulting in the seizure of counterfeit goods, closure of unauthorised sales points, and initiation of criminal proceedings.
- Represented a global apparel brand in Pakistan in civil infringement actions involving unauthorised imports and sales, obtaining injunctions and seizure orders that restored control over the client’s distribution channels.
- Acted for a major real estate developer in a domain-name impersonation matter involving a cloned website and fraudulent job offers, coordinating with Dubai Police E-Crimes Department to secure takedown of the domain and halt misuse.
- Advised and successfully represented one of the leading international publishing houses in protecting against the unauthorised adoption of the name of its iconic fashion magazine for a high-end residential development launched in Dubai without the client’s consent.
- Represented several well-known confectionery brands across the Middle East and South Asia in combating counterfeit products and lookalike goods.
- Successfully assisted major pharmaceutical companies in stopping the sale of counterfeit, infringing and confusingly similar pharmaceutical products manufactured by local entities.
- Planned and executed anti-counterfeiting and infringement programs to prevent local manufacturers from copying patented pharmaceutical products across the region.
- Acted on behalf of world-renowned manufacturers of drilling, oil extraction and refining equipment in protecting their intellectual property rights.
- Acted for major watch and jewellery brands in stopping infringements involving identical and lookalike models.
Service Overview
For more than 75 years, UTMPS has been the partner global brands rely on to defend what matters most: their ideas, their market position, and the integrity of their reputation.
Our award-winning litigators lead some of the most significant IP disputes across the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa, bringing together decades of trial experience, in-depth knowledge of the legal systems of each country, understanding of local practices, thorough knowledge and technical fluency across every major industry.
From complex multi-party trademark litigation to high-stakes anti-counterfeiting actions, patent, design and copyright enforcement, administrative appeals, GI, PBR and domain name disputes, we deliver strategic, fast, and decisive results in some of the world’s most challenging jurisdictions
Wherever our clients operate, we protect their rights with the same conviction: relentlessly, intelligently, and with absolute precision.
Our Capabilities
- Trademark infringement & validity disputes
- Anti-counterfeiting & brand protection
- Trade name and unfair competition actions
- Patent enforcement strategies
- Design infringement proceedings
- Appeals before trademark committees and courts
- Administrative and judicial cancellations
- Domain name and online infringement
- GI and PBR infringement matters
Local Depth. Regional Reach. Real Results.
Award-winning litigators
- We are locally licensed and appellate-level litigators who are consistently recognised as IP Stars, WTR1000, Managing IP, IAM Patent 1000, and regional legal rankings.
Unmatched regional coverage
- With litigation teams across the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa, we enforce rights.
Strategic and Practical
- Our approach is strategic and commercially grounded. We will avoid unnecessary costs while ensuring that the client’s rights are fully protected.
Representative Matters
- Successfully represented several global technology companies in stopping infringement of their iconic trademark and logos.
- Acted for a regional electronics manufacturer in a multi-year dispute that advanced through all levels of review, culminating in the Court of Cassation confirming the registrability of the client’s composite mark.
- Successfully represented a major regional retailer in opposing several conflicting filings across the MENA region, strengthening protection across the client’s extensive portfolio of 3,500 + marks.
- Executed nationwide seizure operations across Middle East, South Asian regions against entities selling counterfeit FMCG, automotive, chemical, pharmaceutical, fashion, sports goods, and electronic equipment, resulting in the seizure of counterfeit goods, closure of unauthorised sales points, and initiation of criminal proceedings.
- Represented a global apparel brand in Pakistan in civil infringement actions involving unauthorised imports and sales, obtaining injunctions and seizure orders that restored control over the client’s distribution channels.
- Acted for a major real estate developer in a domain-name impersonation matter involving a cloned website and fraudulent job offers, coordinating with Dubai Police E-Crimes Department to secure takedown of the domain and halt misuse.
- Advised and successfully represented one of the leading international publishing houses in protecting against the unauthorised adoption of the name of its iconic fashion magazine for a high-end residential development launched in Dubai without the client’s consent.
- Represented several well-known confectionery brands across the Middle East and South Asia in combating counterfeit products and lookalike goods.
- Successfully assisted major pharmaceutical companies in stopping the sale of counterfeit, infringing and confusingly similar pharmaceutical products manufactured by local entities.
- Planned and executed anti-counterfeiting and infringement programs to prevent local manufacturers from copying patented pharmaceutical products across the region.
- Acted on behalf of world-renowned manufacturers of drilling, oil extraction and refining equipment in protecting their intellectual property rights.
- Acted for major watch and jewellery brands in stopping infringements involving identical and lookalike models.
