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Real Estate & Construction and Hotels & Leisure
Real estate, construction, and hospitality are at the forefront of transformation across the Middle East – reshaping cities, driving investment, and demanding increasingly sophisticated legal frameworks.
In the June edition of Law Update, we take a closer look at the legal shifts influencing the sector – from Dubai’s new Real Estate Investment Funds Law and major reforms in Qatar, to Bahrain’s push toward digitalisation in property and timeshare regulation. We also explore practical issues around strata, zoning, joint ventures, and hotel management agreements that are critical to navigating today’s market.
As the landscape becomes more complex, understanding the legal dynamics behind these developments is key to making informed, strategic decisions.
2025 is set to be a game-changer for the MENA region, with legal and regulatory shifts from 2024 continuing to reshape its economic landscape. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, Iraq, Qatar, and Bahrain are all implementing groundbreaking reforms in sustainable financing, investment laws, labor regulations, and dispute resolution. As the region positions itself for deeper global integration, businesses must adapt to a rapidly evolving legal environment.
Our Eyes on 2025 publication provides essential insights and practical guidance on the key legal updates shaping the year ahead—equipping you with the knowledge to stay ahead in this dynamic market.
A complete spectrum of legal services across jurisdictions in the Middle East & North Africa.
Jincy Rachel Thomas
Associate
Biography
Jincy is an Associate in the Innovation, Patents & Industrial Property (3IP) practice, based in Dubai.
Jincy, a qualified Indian Patent Agent, is also a post-graduate Electronics and Communications Engineer, having over 7 years of experience in the field of innovation, R&D and industrial property, managing IP assets for clients, enabling them to create smarter patent portfolios.
Jincy deals primarily with drafting Patent applications (PCT, Non-Provisional / Regular and Provisional patent applications), Utility models and preparing Industrial Design applications as well as in Prosecution of patent applications. She also handles patent prosecution for engineering and technical inventions worldwide, and has expertise in Infringement analysis, Invalidation searches, advising on patentability and freedom-to-operate searches.
Jincy is a member of the firm’s Metaverse working group and has authored a number of articles to Al Tamimi’s Law Update, being experienced in multiple sectors including TMT, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Agriculture, Transportation, Financial Services, and Healthcare.
Recent Experience
- Conducting patentability searches, drafting patent applications, filing and prosecuting inventions for a national oil & gas company
- Filing and prosecuting major inventions related to cooling apparatuses for electronic devices, circuit breaker devices, electrical switching devices, converter circuits and power distribution systems in the GCC countries for a Swedish-Swiss multinational corporation
- Drafting Patent applications (PCT and Non-Provisional patent applications) for an international sustainable agriculture-based company
- Conducting Patentability searches, providing Patentability opinions, Drafting and filing Patent applications and conducting Patent Prosecution for top tier Universities (which include Khalifa University of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates University, University of Sharjah, Zayed University and Al Ghurair University), as well as for local, regional and foreign clients
- Drafting Utility Model applications for a regional start-up company
- Assisting innovators in the clean energy sector in the 3IP protection and IP licensing of their innovations in the GCC, including wind turbine systems, solar systems, clean water desalination systems, and others
- Assisting Dubai Electricity and Water Authority’s (DEWA) in assessing patentability of inventions pertaining to electrical systems including photovoltaic modules / panels, carbon nanotubes and solar energy systems
- Assisting Hyperloop Technologies Inc. in the protection of their transport and energy related innovations in the GCC
- Advising a governmental innovation incubator about various legal aspects related to innovation projects
Key Publications
- Intellectual Property Protection of IT Innovations (Law Update – October 2021) Ahmad Saleh, Jincy Thomas
- Patents: Inventorship vs Ownership (Law Update – March 2020) Ahmad Saleh, Jincy Thomas
- IP Protection of Software Innovations (Law Update – March 2020) Ahmad Saleh, Jincy Thomas
- Design of a circular patch antenna with admittance measurement for wireless communication, IEEE Xplore, 2014
- Design of Microstrip Patch Antenna for Wireless Endoscopic Capsules, International Journal of Research in Information Technology (IJRIT), 2014
- Improvement of Microstrip patch antenna parameters for wireless communication, IEEE Xplore, 2014
Language(s)
- English
- Malayalam
- Hindi
Education
2012 – Mahatma Gandhi University, Engineering – Bachelor of Technology (Electronics and Communication) – B.Tech
2014 – Karunya University, Engineering – Master of Technology (Communication Systems) – M.Tech
Admission
Indian Patent Agent Registration No.: IN/PA-4795
Practice(s)
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