Soad specializes in the field of agriculture and plant variety, having over 12 years’ experience working with major Egyptian companies in the protection and registration of crops and plant varieties.

She has experience in the registration and protection of trademarks, obtainment of plant certificates for various kinds of crops to enable their marketing legally through the Plants’ Protection Office at the Ministry of Agriculture, conducts judiciary inspections to protect varieties, and has applied a program for the protection and traceability of the plants which was devised to stop unlawful shipments at points of entry (Customs Authority).

Soad is very active in reviewing, amending, drafting and supervising the execution of all relevant contracts by breeders to ascertain proper execution by the sub licensees and following up with sub licensees to ascertain their compliance with the obligations set forth.

Soad routinely provides advisory work for the firm’s IP clients, including the negotiation and drafting of service and consultancy agreements.