Umme Salamah Tyebjee

Having both a legal and chemical background, Umme Salamah is involved in assisting and advising on both contentious and non-contentious matters in the IP department.  She mainly handles the patent prosecution of life sciences and pharmaceutical inventions worldwide including, MENA, the US, Europe, Canada and the Far East. Her main activities include filing patent applications, analyzing Office Actions, preparing Responses to Office Actions, drafting patent applications (provisional and non- provisional applications), providing patentability opinions, managing IP portfolios, project management, client relations and communication.

She also assists clients- in the private sector, governmental institutions, research universities, both foreign and local, a wide range of IP and commercial-related matters, including advising on regional and international patent protection strategies, advising on the patentability, freedom-to-operate and the validity/infringement of inventions, conducting due diligences, drafting technology transfer and other innovation related agreements, license agreements, advising in patent and industrial design infringement maters in the MENA region, conducting due diligences in the frame of technology transfer and rights acquisitions, negotiating and drafting technology transfer and other innovation related agreements, advising in dispute resolution matters involving IP conflicts including patent litigation.

In addition to managing global patent portfolios, she also provides legal assistance in matters of Intellectual Property in addition to advising clients about the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights.