Biography:

Dr. Hossam A. El Saghir is a Professor of Commercial Law and the founding Director of the Regional Institute for Intellectual Property established with the cooperation of WIPO in 2006 at Helwan University. The Egyptian government has appointed him a member of several committees responsible for drafting a number of commercial legislations one of which is the Egyptian Intellectual Property Law in force. He has represented WIPO as an intellectual property expert in several missions to provide advice to Arab countries while drafting their intellectual property laws; in addition to representing WIPO in many conferences, workshops and symposiums..He has valuable writings in the fields of commercial and intellectual property laws. He practices law as a legal consultant, arbitrator and a lawyer before the Egyptian Court of Cassation, the Higher Administrative Court and the Constitutional Court.

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