Intellectual Property

In recent years the economic environment has changed from a traditional economy (financial capital) to a knowledge-based economy (intellectual capital), where knowledge is recognised as the driver of productivity and economic growth. This shift has given intellectual property (IP) a greater prominence and importance, but has also led to IP law becoming more and more complex.

Through our professional team we are able to provide expert advice and professional services regarding the protection and commercial exploitation of IP in South Africa, as well as in Africa and other foreign countries.

In general our service offering includes:

• IP portfolio management
• filing and attending to the prosecution of IP applications, both locally and internationally
• amendment of IP registrations
• commercialisation of intellectual property
• conducting IP audits and valuations
• IP infringement
• IP removal or cancellation proceedings
• domain name registrations
• company name objections
• concurrent user applications
• conducting IP clearance, availability and registrability searches
• attending to the maintenance of IP registrations
• assignment of intellectual property
• compiling due diligence reports
• IP opposition
• labelling regulations
• defensive registrations
• copyright
• patents
• design