Chanel is an associate in the Trade Mark Litigation department. She attained her LLB law degree in 2016 with distinction, followed by an LLM degree in International Commercial Law in 2017, and was admitted as an attorney in 2020. She specialises in Trade Mark...
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Rebone Dikotla
Rebone Dikotla is an Associate in the trade mark litigation department. She attained her B.Com (Law) and LLB degree from the University of Pretoria. Rebone specialises in trade mark litigation, particularly, trade mark infringement, company name objections, domain...
Kim Erasmus
Kim is an Associate to Lauren Ross in the Trade Mark Prosecution department. Her areas of practice include trade mark searching and filing both locally and internationally. She completed her LLB degree at the University of the Western Cape.
Whitney Lee Govender-Williams
Michael is an associate in the Commercial, Property and Litigation department in Pretoria. He is a litigation attorney, practicing as such in Road Accident Fund claims, Medical Malpractice, Professional Negligence, Unlawful arrest and detention, as well as other Personal Injury Claims.
Simon Brown
At present, Simon is the Head of the Trade Mark Prosecution section, as well as Co-chairperson of the Trade Mark Department at Adams & Adams. Simon’s practice focuses largely on clearance investigations, filing and prosecution of trade mark cases and trade mark portfolio management throughout Africa and internationally.
Danie Dohmen
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.
Russell Bagnall
Russell Bagnall has advised clients on several contentious issues involving pharmaceutical disputes between multinational and generic companies. He also advises pharmaceutical clients on a wide range of issues, including licence and distribution agreements, co-promotion agreements and regulatory issues.
Bilkis Daby
Bilkis is a partner in the Trade Marks Department, holding a LLB degree from the University of KwaZulu-Natal.Â
Nicolette Biggar
Nicolette Biggar is a Partner in the Trade Mark prosecution department in Pretoria. The focus of her practice is on Trade Mark protection (from application to registration) in Africa but she advises clients on protection outside of Africa as well.
Jani Cronjé
Jani Cronjé is a partner in the firm’s Trade Mark Litigation department. She specialises in trade mark oppositions and cancellations, trade mark infringement and passing-off disputes, domain name complaints, ASA complaints and copyright infringement matters.
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