Jincy Thomas

Jincy Thomas is a Senior Associate in the Innovation, Patents & Industrial Property (3IP) practice, based in Dubai. Her primary practice area is Patent Law. She is a qualified Indian Patent Agent and a postgraduate Electronics and Communications Engineer, with over 7 years of experience in innovation, R&D and industrial property, managing IP assets for clients and enabling them to create smarter patent portfolios.

She deals primarily with drafting patent applications (PCT, non-provisional/regular and provisional patent applications), utility models and preparing industrial design applications, as well as prosecution of patent applications. She also handles patent prosecution for engineering and technical inventions worldwide, and has expertise in infringement analysis, invalidation searches, and advising on patentability and freedom-to-operate searches.

She is a member of the firm's Metaverse working group and has authored a number of articles for Al Tamimi's Law Update, with experience in multiple sectors including TMT, artificial intelligence, blockchain, agriculture, transportation, financial services and healthcare.

Her recent experience includes conducting patentability searches, drafting patent applications, filing and prosecuting inventions for a national oil & gas company; filing and prosecuting major inventions related to cooling apparatuses for electronic devices, circuit breaker devices, electrical switching devices, converter circuits and power distribution systems in the GCC countries for a Swedish-Swiss multinational corporation; and drafting patent applications for an international sustainable agriculture-based company.

She has also conducted patentability searches, provided patentability opinions, drafted and filed patent applications and conducted patent prosecution for top-tier universities, including Khalifa University of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates University, University of Sharjah, Zayed University and Al Ghurair University, as well as for local, regional and foreign clients. She has drafted utility model applications for a regional start-up company and assisted innovators in the clean energy sector with 3IP protection and IP licensing of their innovations in the GCC, including wind turbine systems, solar systems and clean water desalination systems.

Other matters include assisting Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) in assessing patentability of inventions pertaining to electrical systems including photovoltaic modules and panels, carbon nanotubes and solar energy systems; assisting Hyperloop Technologies Inc. in the protection of their transport and energy-related innovations in the GCC; and advising a governmental innovation incubator on various legal aspects related to innovation projects.

Her key publications include 'Intellectual Property Protection of IT Innovations' (Law Update, October 2021), 'Patents: Inventorship vs Ownership' (Law Update, March 2020) and 'IP Protection of Software Innovations' (Law Update, March 2020), all co-authored with Ahmad Saleh.

She holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication from Mahatma Gandhi University (2012) and a Master of Technology in Communication Systems from Karunya University (2014). She is a registered Indian Patent Agent (IN/PA-4795) and speaks English, Malayalam and Hindi.