Note* This role is based in Dubai and requires relocation. Please do not apply if you are unable to relocate.
Our client is a fast-growing technology business seeking an experienced IP Lawyer to support the implementation and execution of intellectual property strategy across multiple clients and international markets. This is a senior, hands-on role focused on protecting and enforcing IP assets globally, ensuring that brands, technology, and digital assets are consistently safeguarded as the business scales.
The role spans day-to-day IP execution across jurisdictions, including portfolio management, clearance and prosecution, enforcement actions, and dispute resolution. Working closely with commercial, product, marketing, and technology teams, the successful candidate will advise on IP usage, manage filings and renewals, coordinate takedowns and domain disputes, and support licensing and technology agreements across diverse markets.
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 recordals. Audit and keep updated internal IP registry. Lead copyrights registrations for different 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 efficient 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.
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, Mark Monitor, Red Points) plus solid Excel/Sheets capability