Senior IP Lawyer

Title: Senior IP Lawyer

Location: Dubai

Salary: 20-25K AED

Lead the company’s global intellectual-property programme—trademarks, patents, copyrights, trade secrets, domains - by setting strategy, securing registrations, enforcing rights through takedown actions, oppositions, and litigation, and resolving disputes so that every core asset is protected and monetised.

Core responsibilities:

Portfolio strategy:

• Design the annual filing and renewal roadmap by IP type, territory,class, and budget. • Continuously audit the portfolio, identify gaps, and recommend defensive or defensive filings.

Clearance and prosecution:

• Oversee knockout and full searches, issue legal researches and opinions, and approve go/no-go decisions.

• Direct outside agents on national and Madrid filings; manage examiner actions, renewals, and records.

• Target ≥ 90 % registration success across all applications.

• Audit and keep updated internal IP registry.

• Lead copyrights registrations for difrent types of IP.

Enforcement and dispute resolution:

• Decide on oppositions, cancellations, DMCA notices, UDRP/URS complaints, customs seizures, platform takedowns, and litigation.

• Lead settlement negotiations and supervise external lawyer in multi-jurisdictional cases related to IP. • Ensure strategic use of registrar, and platform abuse channels for ecient IP enforcement and domain recovery.

• Track and report cost-benefit metrics for every action.

Commercial support:

• Draft and negotiate IP clauses in licensing, distribution, M&A, and technology agreements.

• Advise Marketing, Product, R&D, and HR on proper trademark and copyright usage.

Digital brand protection:

• Oversee monitoring and legal escalation of infringements across domains, app stores, ads, social media, and code repositories.

• Authorise rapid takedowns through registrars, Netcraft, Cloudflare, Google TCRP, etc. Governance and reporting

• Maintain an audit-ready docket and a live risk dashboard.

• Deliver concise weekly updates to the Head of IP and quarterly IP heat-maps to the Board.

Leadership

• Mentor enforcement specialists and paralegals; build SOPs and playbooks.

• Drive continuous improvement to cut cycle times and external spend.

Required qualifications:

• LL.B./JD and active licence to practise law in at least one jurisdiction.

• 7+ years of hands-on IP work, including global brand protection, takedown and domain dispute enforcement, and contested matters.

• Proven wins in oppositions, UDRP/URS, and at least one multi-country litigation or high-value settlement.

• Strong contract-drafting skills for licensing and tech transactions.

• Fluent English; an additional Asian or EU language is an advantage.

• Proficiency with leading IP-management and brand-monitoring platforms (Corsearch, MarkMonitor, Red Points) plus solid Excel/Sheets capability