Alisha is an admitted attorney and trade mark practitioner with a deep passion for Intellectual Property (IP) law. She holds both a BAccLLB degree and an LLM in Intellectual Property Law (Cum Laude) from Stellenbosch University. Alisha specializes in trade mark litigation in South Africa and across the African continent, handling a wide range of […]

Mercia has extensive experience in drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, with a focus on agreements involving intellectual property. Mercia’s intellectual property commercialisation practice deals with a broad range of intellectual property transactions, including the licensing, distribution and sale of intellectual property, material transfers, and contractual arrangements pertaining to intellectual property research and development. Additionally, she […]

Afia is an Associate in the Corporate and Commercial Department at Adams & Adams. She attained her Bachelor of Laws Degree and Master of Laws Degree specialising in Intellectual Property at the University of Cape Town in 2021 and 2022, respectively, and was duly admitted as an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa […]

Thomas is a registered patent attorney with experience in patents and registered designs, as well as regulatory compliance and policy related to Intellectual Property. He graduated with an MSc in Plant Biotechnology from the University of Pretoria before pursuing a law degree from UNISA and becoming a patent attorney. He has a strong technical background […]

Dr. Joanne van Harmelen is a qualified attorney with over 15 years of experience in the legal profession. She specialises in patent filing and prosecution in the biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and chemicals sectors as well as advising clients on related regulatory and IP commercial matters. Joanne’s approach to advising clients is to consider holistically the commercial […]

Danie Dohmen is a partner at Adams & Adams in the patent litigation section. He specialises in patent, design, plant breeder’s rights and intellectual property agreement litigation, commercialisation and opinion work. Danie has for a number of consecutive years been ranked in tier 1 for patent litigation in South Africa.

Alexis Apostolidis is a partner in the patent litigation practice of Adams & Adams and heads the competition law department of the firm. He is well versed in all aspects of patent law and specialises in opinion work and patent litigation in the life sciences, agrochemical, petrochemical, IT and consumer goods sectors. He has successfully litigated on behalf of originator pharmaceutical companies, OEM German car manufacturers, banks and television content providers. Alexis’ practice also extends to litigation concerning design registrations, the commercialisation and licensing of IP and regulatory matters in the life sciences sector. He advises and represents clients in litigious work in a number of African countries.

Lita was admitted as attorney in 2010. She holds an LLB degree from University of Western Cape. Her areas of practice include brand enforcement and trade mark prosecution including, infringement, and opposition proceedings, domain name disputes, company and close corporation name objections, trade mark searches, filings, assignments. She also has experience in anti-counterfeiting.

Eugene Honey has been specialising in Trade Marks and Copyright matters, as well as Commercial IP matters including Franchising and Licensing, IP valuations, IP Due Diligence and IP portfolio management since being admitted in 1991.

Maureen is an admitted Attorney working in the Trade Mark department. She specialises in trade mark prosecution, brand enforcement as well as litigation which includes name objection, opposition infringement matters.