Ahmad is a UAE legal consultant overviewing the MENA-region wide Innovation & Patents practice, based out of Dubai since 2011. Ahmad is a Canadian attorney and computer/electrical engineer by background with over 12 years of higher education studies in law, engineering, and business management. He also comes with over 17 years of international and MENA related experience in intellectual property, patents, technology transfer, innovation advisory, entrepreneurship, and commercial law. Before joining Al Tamimi & Company, he worked for reputable Canadian and international law firms.

With his three-helix qualifications – legal, engineering and innovation management, Ahmad brings to the benefit of client’s rich three-dimensional expertise combining legal, technical, and business.  He is particularly skilled in strategizing and is uniquely positioned for combining the various pieces of the puzzle together particularly in complex projects with sophisticated legal, technical, and business components such as public policy gap analysis and studies.

Ahmad is the designer, founder and lead of Al Tamimi & Company’s cutting-edge Innovation, Patents & Industrial Property (3IP) practice and pioneering 3IP service model covering unique legal, business and technical consultancy in the field of innovation, patents and industrial property rights throughout the entire innovation life cycle.  Ahmad leads a seasoned diverse team comprising IP lawyers, tech transfer lawyers, patent attorneys, technical consultants and business consultants providing specialized IP legal, technical, and business consultancy services to clients with a focus on technology, R&D and innovation.

With a focus on innovation, entrepreneurship, and tech driven industries under both the engineering and life sciences sectors, Ahmad’s practice covers a wide spectrum of services from IP/Patent prosecution & procurement, IP/Patent portfolio management, IP/Patent litigation, IP transactional & tech transfer, IP strategies, auditing, due diligence & opinions. Ahmad also advises governmental entities, research institutions and consultancy firms in high-level innovation strategies, legislative, regulatory, innovation policies, processes, innovation fostering, and setting legal frameworks for the implementation and deployment of innovation projects and organizations.

Ahmad is one of the most experienced patent lawyers and innovation councils in the Middle East and is widely recognized for his strategic and visionary thinking and leadership. Ahmad sits on various committees and advisory panels including, the Global Advisory Panel of the UAEU Science & Innovation Park, the Global Entrepreneurship Monitoring (GEM) UAE Steering Committee, the Innovation Advisory Board of the Dubai Healthcare Authority, and the Herriot Watt Advisory Board. He regularly mentors start-ups throughout their business cycles, from the incubation stage to advanced maturity stages.

Ahmad is regularly invited to speak at innovation events and has been interviewed on various television channels, newspapers, and magazines in relation to innovations, entrepreneurship and intellectual property, including Dubai TV, Emarat TV, Fujairah TV, the National, International Bar Association, Thomson Reuters and has an extensive library of publications.