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Assistant Director of Intellectual Property (Hearings)

• To oversee the provision of legal advice on matters arising from contentious trade mark, patent and design proceedings.

• To make provisional determinations in all interlocutory matters; undertaking trade mark registrability, opposition and invalidation hearings, and handing down reasoned decisions.

• To plan and supervise trade mark, patent and design hearings at all stages.

• To monitor the allocation of hearings to legal officers and attend court on appeals relating to cases from all Registries.

• To establish practice and procedures in contentious trade mark, patent and design applications.

• To update the Trade Mark Manual in respect of hearings as and when necessary and oversee the preparation of internal guidelines relating to hearings.

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