Kamaal guides clients through the legal and business challenges of acquiring, developing, and commercializing new technologies and intellectual property assets. Kamaal serves as a dedicated partner to clients’ success at every stage of a company's lifecycle, from growing market entrants to global enterprises.

Technology Transactions

Kamaal provides sophisticated business advice to help clients achieve strategic objectives while safeguarding their interests in complex, multijurisdictional transactions.

Experience and Skills

• Agreement Structuring: Negotiating complex deals, including joint ventures, affiliations, reseller arrangements, and supply agreements.
• Licensing & Procurement: Drafting licensing arrangements for patents, copyrights, trademarks, software, and other proprietary research and sensitive data.
• Strategic Partnerships: Advising on joint development, R&D, and collaboration agreements.
• Operational Support: Structuring vendor, supplier, outsourcing, and manufacturing arrangements.
• Distribution: Managing reseller, VAR, and OEM distribution agreements.
  
   

• Automotive.
• Telecommunications.
• E-commerce and FinTech.
• Healthcare Information Technology.
• Artificial Intelligence.
• Software, Cloud, and Data-as-a-Service Technologies.
• IoT and Connected Devices.
• Digital Media and Advertising.

Trademarks

Kamaal delivers comprehensive services for the protection of large and mid-size trademark portfolios, guiding clients through each stage of trademark clearance, prosecution, and enforcement.

Experience and Skills

• Portfolio Management: Managing trademark selection, adoption, and prosecution before the USPTO.
• Clearance & Strategy: Conducting detailed clearance searches and crafting filing strategies attuned to business needs.
• Contentious Matters: Representing clients in opposition and cancellation proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
• Enforcement: Preparing strategies and action for policing trademark rights, including cease and desist work.
• Internet Issues: Navigating UDRP/ACPA actions, DMCA enforcement, and domain acquisition.
• Transactional IP: Providing intellectual property due diligence for mergers, acquisitions, and financing.

• Consumer and Luxury Goods.
• E-commerce. 
• Financial Services.
• Food and Beverage.
• Artificial Intelligence.
• Software, Cloud, and Data-as-a-Service Technologies.