Encouraging Developments at the Registry In October 2019, Adams & Adams partners, Nicky Garnett, Stephen Hollis and Elio Teixeira travelled to Luanda for a meeting with Anna Paula Bolivar, the Director General of the Instituto Angolana Propriedade Industrial...
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TUNISIA (May 2018)
Representatives from Adams & Adams, Simon Brown, Nicky Garnett and Dieter Welthagen travelled to Tunis to visit our Associate Office, as well as the Institut National de la Normalisation et de la Propriete Industrielle (INNORPI) . We met with the Director General...
EGYPT (May 2018)
Representatives from Adams & Adams, Simon Brown, Nicky Garnett and Dieter Welthagen travelled to Cairo to visit our Associate Office, as well as Patent and Trade Mark Offices. Our Associate Office in Egypt was opened in 2017 upon recognition of the growing...
MOROCCO (April 2018)
Representatives from Adams & Adams, Simon Brown, Nicky Garnett and Dieter Welthagen travelled to Casablanca to visit our Associate Office, as well as the Office Marocain de la Propriete Industrielle et Commerciale (OMPIC). This was our first visit to Morocco since...
A LIFE OF LEGAL FIRSTS | ESMé DU PLESSIS
The late Pam Golding, one of Africa’s most successful women entrepreneurs and an icon of the real estate industry once said, “I have always believed that women can do anything they set their hearts on.” Such an evaluation can easily be ascribed to a doyenne of the...
AFRICA IP CASE STUDY | A ‘STEP’ TOWARD BETTER HYGIENE IN AFRICA’S HOSPITALS
According to the World Health Organization, health-care-associated infection (HAI) is a major global safety concern for both patients and health-care professionals. HAI is defined as an infection occurring in a patient during the process of care in a hospital or other...
LARGEST AFRICA IP MEETING CELEBRATES FIVE YEARS
Adams & Adams hosted its 5th annual IP network seminar, the largest of its kind on the continent, for partners and IP officials from across Africa. The meeting brought together close to 100 leading IP practitioners and administrators, representing 42 out of 54...
ADAMS & ADAMS ANNOUNCES NEW ASSOCIATE OFFICE IN ZIMBABWE
The news of the establishment of an Adams & Adams Associate Office in Zimbabwe marks a significant milestone in the work of the firm in Africa, by bringing the number of such offices on the continent to 20. In making the announcement, Partner and Co-Chairperson of...
THE GLOBAL PATENT PROSECUTION HIGHWAY
Author: Nicky Garnett The Global Patent Prosecution Highway (GPPH) was launched on 6 January 2014 with the express intent of allowing patent applicants to request accelerated examination at any and all patent offices involved in the pilot programme. In 'Born to be...
ANGOLA
Luanda On 10 March 2015, the firm visited the Registry to meet with Ms Ana Bolivar, the new Registrar. The purpose of the visit was to discuss the situation at IAPI which continues to present challenges, particularly in respect of the delays in the processing and...
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