Lawyer Overview

Yasmine O. Abdel-Aal's practice includes the preparation and prosecution of patents, trademarks, and copyrights, as well as the litigation of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and related business issues of unfair competition.

A graduate of the Whittier Law School with a Certificate in Intellectual Property, Ms. Abdel-Aal served as President of the Student Bar Association, Clerical Justice for the Moot Court Honors Board, and Treasurer of the Intellectual Property Society. She also received a Public Interest Law Foundation Summer Grant in 2006, and later joined the Grant Selection Committee for the Public Interest Law Foundation. In 2008, she received the Dean's Citation for Outstanding Service to the Whittier Law School.

Ms. Abdel-Aal earned her B.S. in Biological Sciences in 2005 from the University of California, Irvine, where she was given Excellence in Research Honors. She was also a presenter on Biology of Aging at several conferences including the UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium in May 2004. Her article, "The Heterogeneity theory of lifetime fecundity is insufficient to explain late-life fecundity plateaus in Drosophila melangaster," was published in 2005 in Experimental Gerontology, a scientific journal.

Prior to joining Fulwider Patton LLP, Ms. Abdel-Aal was a legal extern at Biosensors International where she assisted senior in-house counsel in the preparation and prosecution of medical device patents.

Ms. Abdel-Aal was an organizer for the ABA Sierra Leone Law Book Drive in 2008, and was an organizer of fundraisers for such charitable organizations as Toys For Tots, the Orange County Food Bank, and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. She is also proficient in Arabic and Spanish.

Areas of Practice

• Patents
• Trademarks
• Copyrights
• Unfair Competition
• Licensing
• Trade Secret Matters

West Practice Categories

Licensing, Unfair Competition, Copyrights, Patents, Trade Secrets, Trademarks

Bar Admissions

• California, 2008
• U.S. District Court Central District of California
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Orange County Bar Association (Member)
• American Intellectual Property Law Association (Member)

Education

• Whittier Law School, Costa Mesa, California, 2008
  J.D.
  Honors: Certificate, Intellectual Property
  Honors: Dean's Citation Award, Outstanding Service, 2008
  Honors: President, Student Bar Association, 2007-2008
  Honors: Moot Court Honors Board, Clerical Justice, 2007-2008
  Honors: Intellectual Property Society, Treasurer, 2006-2007
  Honors: Public Interest Law Foundation Summer Grant Recipient, 2006
• University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, 2005
  B.S.
  Honors: Excellence in Research Honors
  Major: Biological Sciences
  Minor: Business Management

Published Works

• "Lifelong Heterogeneity in Fecundity is Insufficient to Explain Late-Life Fecundity Plateaus in Drosophila Melanogaster", Experimental Gerontology. 40: 660-670, 2005
• "The Heterogeneity Theory of Lifetime Fecundity is Insufficient to Explain Late-Life Fecundity Plateaus in Drosophila Melanogaster", 2004-2005 Journal of Undergraduate Research in the Biological Sciences, 2005

Address

Howard Hughes Center
6060 Center Drive
Tenth Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90045

Phones

(310) 824-5555

Faxes

(310) 824-9696

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Websites

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