
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...
Read More- 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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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...
May 28 2024

One work to rule them all?
Battle lines have recently been drawn, after fan fiction writer, Demetrious Polychron, filed a 250-million-dollar lawsuit against the Tolkien Estate and Amazon on the basis of copyright infringement. ...
May 17 2023