We provide consultancy and results-oriented services to our clients in conformity with their interests and in line with their respective companies’ policies. Our clients’ concerns in the protection and enforcement of their IP Rights almost always transcend from points of complexities to the increasingly challenging diverse fields of Intellectual Property. We have a highly qualified and experienced team ready to accept assignments, capable to perform to their utmost and, to deliver results that unquestionably, provide the most effective solutions to our clients’ concerns, mustered from our time-tested regional market experiences.
KAD’s expertise in providing exceptional services to its clients is attributed to the fact that the core of its manpower is composed of individuals who have gained substantial and long years of experience in the different fields of Intellectual Property. It included experienced investigators, legal specialist, and support staff of bilingual secretaries and translators who have acquired and developed their respective capabilities through their educational, theoretical and practical undertakings that bestowed upon them the capacity to deal on any IP issue at any given situation.
We recognize the importance of becoming partners with our clients on all IP services i.e. In-Market Surveys, Due Diligence Investigations, Enforcement Actions, Training & Workshops. Our partnership also includes Intellectual Property Registrations such as Trademarks, Patents, Layout Designs of Integrated Circuits, Plant Varieties and Industrial Designs, Copyright Protection and Domain Names, to ensure that such remedies available under Saudi Law are appropriately adopted by our clients, and to ensure that they are consistent with their respective company’s policies and guidelines.
With a wide range of services, we provide different methods to protect one’s business:
In-Market Survey
KAD maintains an in-house team of spotters and ground investigators who are fully aware and familiar of all the Saudi Arabian and nearby country markets. The members of this team have the capability to conduct any number of market surveys at any given time. With the expertise and skills that are inherent upon them and which they have developed through their long and continuous practice under KAD’s administration, the maximum and quality information and data expected of them to gather pertaining to our clients’ trademarks and brands protection would in turn, be delivered to our clients in a timely fashion, meeting if not exceeding, their expectations.
Due Diligence Investigation
KAD also maintains a top caliber in-house team equipped with a wide range of expertise, long years of experience, and familiarity and deep knowledge about the Saudi Arabian markets and other nearby business environments i.e. GCC countries (Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE and Oman), Middle East countries (Jordan, Egypt, Yemen and Iraq) and South Asian countries (Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan).
Their strong and reliable experiences coupled with the successful management of the Intellectual Propoerty matters assigned to them have been the basis for our clients to engage our highly dependable services.
Enforcement Action
The KAD team of highly experienced staff supported by its legal team, have the capabilities and skills to handle and conduct liaison and enforcement actions in close coordination with concerned governmental authorities in Saudi Arabia, in the other GCC countries (Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE and Oman), Middle East countries (Jordan, Egypt, Yemen and Iraq) and South Asian countries (Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan) whose paramount interests are all focused in combating commercial fraud and counterfeiting by stopping the counterfeiters or infringers dealing in the market.
Customs Watch
KAD is also equipped with the capabilities and qualifications to handle liaison and enforcement actions. The Saudi Customs Authorities (SCA) concluded with KAD a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) as a consultant Saudi company to combat commercial fraud and counterfeiting by contacting the brand owners and confirming the status of the goods whether or not they are genuine or counterfeit before they would be released by the SCA to the Saudi markets, and to pursue this avowed objective and achieve its implementation, in all Ports of entry and to the far-flung borders of the Kingdom.
Training and
Workshops
In line with its goals under the MOU that it had concluded with the SCA, KAD conducts and regularly continues to conduct, workshops and training sessions for the SCA Inspectors, Examiners and Senior Officials and also, for the high level officials of the Anti-Counterfeiting and Fraud Department (ACFD) of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, and other related government agencies involved in Intellectual Property protection.
Intellectual Property Registration
KAD, through its formidable manpower that includes experienced Patent Attorneys, Trademark Specialists, In-house Legal Consultants, and adequately trained support staff, competently handles practically all fields of IP registrations, operations and protection measures. Our multinational clients have shown great interest in securing our services either directly or indirectly through the international firms that KAD had been representing.
