Blain de Villiers
About
Blain de Villiers is a partner in the Trade Marks Department, a top-tier ranked attorney and Trade Mark Practitioner.
He specialises in managing clients’ IP portfolios and advises some of the world’s top multi-national organisations on their trade mark needs, attending to the prosecution of trade marks locally (in Southern Africa) and abroad but, primarily, across the African continent.
Blain holds BA (Law)(UCT) and LLB (UP) degrees, is a Fellow of the SA Institute of Intellectual Property Law and a member of various international IP...
Read More- Trade Mark Filings, Searches and Prosecutions
- Trade Marks (Africa and International)
- Trade Mark Portfolio Management
Academic Record
- LLB – University of Pretoria | 1995
- BA (Law) – University of Cape Town | 1992
Qualifications
- Admitted Attorney | 1998
- Qualified Trade Mark Practitioner | 1998
Credentials
- International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) – Member
- International Trade Mark Association (INTA) – Member
- Legal Practice Council (LPC) – Member
- Listed in The Best Lawyers: South Africa in Intellectual Property Law (2023 – 2026)
- WTR 1000 – Ranked Recommended in Prosecution and Strategy | 2022 – 2024
- WTR 1000- Ranked Bronze in Prosecution and Strategy | 2025 – 2026
- Legal 500 – Recommended IP Practitioner | 2018
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