Hassan Albakri's practice focuses on intellectual property counseling and litigation as well as cross-border transaction matters. He has over ten years of experience in patent matters and has advised clients in a wide range of industries, including computer hardware and software, internet technologies, electronics, medical devices, telecommunications, and financial services. Mr. Albakri also provides invalidity, infringement, and freedom-to-operate advice, and analyzes intellectual property that clients are either interested in acquiring or are concerned about having used against them. In addition, he negotiates licenses, asset purchase and merger agreements and other technology-related contracts for individuals, government entities and companies ranging from start-ups to multi-billion dollar corporations. He also manages due diligence investigations in connection with various transactions and has experience handling trade secret, trademark, copyright and international trade issues.

Mr. Albakri's pro bono activities have included asylum and adoption work, as well as assisting the Carter Center in reviewing and opining on principal mining contracts entered into by the Democratic Republic of the Congo in an effort by its newly-elected government to reduce corruption.

Before attending graduate school, Mr. Albakri was an intern at the Dobelle Institute where he helped implement artificial vision for the blind by connecting a television camera to electrodes implanted in the human brain. Before that, he was a research fellow at Brown University in the Laboratory for Engineering Man/Machine Systems in image understanding and metrology.

Mr. Albakri's degrees are in electrical engineering and business economics.

Bar and Court Admissions

New York, 2007

United States District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York

Education

Fordham University School of Law, J.D., 2006

Cornell University, M.Eng, 2001

Brown University, B.S., magna cum laude, with honors, 2000

Languages

Arabic

French

Publications

• "The Precise Modeling and Measurement of Free-Form Surfaces," (co-author), Transactions of the ASME, Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, May 2002

Professional Affiliations

• American Bar Association
• New York City Bar Association, Patents Committee
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Civic Involvement and Honors

• Named a Rising Star (Intellectual Property & International) in the New York Super Lawyers - Metro Edition magazine, 2011

• Named Empire State Counsel by the New York State Bar Association in recognition of pro bono services volunteered, 2007

• Member of Sigma Xi Scientific Honorary Society
• Recipient of DiMase fellowship for Research in Engineering, 1999