Services Needed and Provided by AGIP during Crisis

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property (AGIP) has implemented a comprehensive business continuity plan to maintain operations as usual; providing a wide range of high quality and timely IP services to all our clients including: 

Anti-Counterfeiting Program
With the growth of Internet usage and E-commerce, the number of counterfeit trademarks and marketing of counterfeit goods on websites increase. Hence, trademark owners would bear two losses; first, their inability to sell their original products in favor of the counterfeit products, and loss of goodwill for having a low-quality counterfeit product similar to the original trademark owner’s product. Therefore, monitoring and stopping such infringement, and holding infringers accountable become a necessity.

Through its wide and long experience in Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) protection and its trend towards adopting rapidly developing information and communication technologies, Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property (AGIP) provides trademark owners with the needed assistance to monitor e-commerce sites, social media channels and all other websites, to stop any infringement.

Phishing Detection and Reporting
Impersonators send fake, phishing and spoof emails in the name of a certain firm, asking for personal or financial information. During a crisis, such type of e-mails increases, that is why it is very important to monitor them and reporting to the relevant authorities to stop them.

Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property works hand in hand with its clients to stop the misleading impersonation attacks that harm the reputation of firms and may lead to financial losses. 

Global Trademark Watch Service
To notify our clients if anyone tries to file an identical or similar trademark. It is now offered globally not only in the Arab region as before.

Patent Search (such as FTO, equivalent and applicant searches)
In Q4-2020, pharmaceutical companies will re-shift their expenditure to R&D, and most probably will develop more interest in this service. 

Pharma-Watch
Monitoring possibly infringing generic pharmaceutical products, and notifying originator companies of the infringement. It can be considered as a form of patent enforcement (pre-litigation).

IP Portfolio Management
To have a centralized contact with big clients, who acts as their representative in our firm to make sure all going per the client’s plan, and notify the client of any important issues to take action on.

Brand Protection
Similar to IP Portfolio Management but mainly for litigation issues.

Product Certification and Labeling
A new service we started offering from Dubai, for products owners who are interested in marketing their products in the Gulf area mainly.