Jared de Canha
Location
4 Daventry Road, Pretoria, South Africa

Jared de Canha

About

Jared is an admitted attorney, trade mark practitioner and associate in the Trade Mark Litigation Department in Pretoria. He served his articles of clerkship at Adams & Adams after attaining his LLB and LLM degrees with distinction at the University of Pretoria in 2018 and 2019, respectively. Jared was admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa in 2022 and inducted as a Fellow of SAIIPL and trade mark practitioner in 2023. He assists in a broad range of litigious intellectual property matters in South Africa, and throughout...

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  • Trade Mark Litigation (Enforcement)
  • Copyright Litigation (Enforcement)
  • Domain Name Disputes
  • Company and Close Corporation Name Objections
  • Advertising and Regulatory Issues
  • Commercial IP Transactions

Academic

  • LLM (Mercantile Law) (with distinction) – University of Pretoria | 2019
  • LLB (with distinction) – University of Pretoria | 2018

Qualifications

  • Admitted Attorney | 2022

Credentials

  • Legal Practice Council (LPC) – Member
  • South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law (SAIIPL) – Fellow
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It’s giving trade mark: the registrability and enforceability of Gen Z Slang in South Africa

With the emergence of Gen Z Slang, spoken by the generation born between 1997 and 2012, you would be forgiven for feeling cheugy (read “someone who is out of date”) when the language of these “d...

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META-morphosis: exciting developments in respect of the enforcement of ARB complaints

On Monday afternoon, the Advertising Regulatory Board (“ARB”) set the industry abuzz after it announced that Meta, the technology conglomerate which owns and operates a hive of social media platfo...

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Esco-barred: When is a trade mark contrary to morality, or likely to offend?

An application for the PABLO ESCOBAR trade mark, designating multiple classes of goods and services, was recently barred from registration in the European Union, amidst concerns regarding morality and...

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