TRADE MARK COMMERCIALISATION

Alicia has extensive practical experience in trade mark prosecution matters including conducting trade mark clearance, availability, registrability and infringement searches and attending to trade mark recordal, prosecution and maintenance matters in South Africa, Africa and various other territories throughout the world.

Amina is an admitted attorney, notary public and conveyancer as well as a qualified trade mark practitioner. She is a member of the Legal Practice Council and a fellow of the South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law.

Bilkis is a partner in the Trade Marks Department, holding a LLB degree from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. 

Blain de Villiers is a partner in the Trade Marks Department, a top-tier ranked attorney and Trade Mark Practitioner, with over 20 years’ worth of experience.

An experienced intellectual property advisor with over 20 years experience gained in local and international law firms as well as in-house. Especially interested in IP management (primarily brands), prosecution, commercialisation and enforcement in Africa but worked for a decade in London, focusing on Europe.

Eugene Honey has specialized in Trade Marks and Copyright matters, as well as Commercial IP matters including Franchising and Licensing for approximately 25 years.

I am a lawyer specializing in Intellectual Property Protection in South Africa and African with particularly expertise in all areas of Trade Mark Law, from brand creation, clearance searches; local, African and overseas trademark filings strategies, filing for the protection through the entire process to registration and certain areas of the practice including the running of maintenance programs to commercialization and licensing of intellectual property.

Joseph Goedhals is a partner in the Trade Marks Department, holding B Com (Law) and LLB (Tuks) degrees.

Lauren has practical experience in trade mark prosecution matters including conducting trade mark clearance, availability, registrability and infringement searches, all aspects of trade mark registration and portfolio management. Lauren has 12 years of post qualification experience and the focus of her work is in South Africa and Africa.

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.

Lucy Signorelli is a partner in the firm’s Trade Mark Prosecution department specialising in recordals across the world. She also has extensive experience in trade mark litigation, including copyright, trade mark, unlawful competition and passing off issues, and was one of the partners heading up the Anti-Counterfeiting team from 2010 to 2018.

Megan Moerdijk, a partner in the trade mark prosecution group, is an experienced trade mark practitioner with a specialisation in African trade mark searching, filing and prosecution. 

Nelia Hickman holds BA LLB-degrees from Stellenbosch University and an Honours through UNISA. After a spell in general law and trade mark litigation, Nelia has specialized in trade mark prosecution work for over two decades.

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.

Nishi is a Partner in the Trade mark Department. She practices at the Durban office and is one of the Managing Partners. Nishi served for seven years on the firm’s Management Committee as Branch Office Chairperson.

Nolwazi has twenty one years post qualification experience in the field of trade mark law.  She has in the past focused in trade marks and copyright litigation including passing-off and unlawful competition. She advised clients from divergent industries including from the fashion and luxury goods, hospitality, fast moving consumer goods, sports, automotive, to name but a few.

Nondumiso Msimang is a Partner in the Trade Mark Prosecution department. Under the leadership of a Senior Partner, Ms Msimang advises clients from a wide range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, automotive, banking, consumer products, telecommunications, food and beverage, clothing, petroleum oil and paint industries.

Sajidha is a partner in Adams & Adams’s Trade Mark Department.  She graduated with a BA(Hons) LLB from the University of the Witwatersrand in 2007 and has 8 years’ post qualification experience. 

Samantha is a partner in Adams & Adams’s Trademark Department.  She graduated with an LLB from Cape Town University in 1990 and has 25 year’s post qualification experience. 

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.

Stephen Hollis is a specialist trade mark lawyer who advises local and international clients on brand protection and enforcement strategies with a specific focus on the African market. 

Wensel advises clients on trade mark portfolio management and registration strategies world-wide across various industries.

Alissa Nayanah joined Adams & Adams in 2012. She is a qualified Trade Mark Practitioner who specialises in trade mark prosecution and enforcement in South Africa and foreign territories.

Claire is a senior associate in the Trade Mark Department at Adams & Adams. Claire has 11 years experience in trade mark portfolio management, searches, filing and the prosecution of trade mark applications, with particular emphasis on foreign and African trade marks.

Femke has experience in various aspects of intellectual property law and related fields, including trade mark litigation and prosecution matters, copyright, domain name disputes, anti-counterfeiting and labelling.

Kagisho started his career in Intellectual Property law as a Trade Mark Examiner at the South African Trade Marks Office.

Mohamed Jameel Hamid is a qualified attorney and trade mark practitioner specialising in litigation relating to trade marks, copyright, passing-off, unlawful competition, domain name disputes and company and business name objections.

Nicholas Rosslee is an intellectual property lawyer based in the Adams & Adams Sandton office. He is passionate about the commercialisation of intellectual property and writes regularly for the Adams & Adams IPLive Blog.

Therése specialises in the searching, filing, prosecution, registration and portfolio management of trademarks, with a strong focus and experience not only relating to the territories on the African continent, but worldwide.

Udi Pillay is a Senior Associate in the Trade Mark Department at Adams & Adams in Durban.

Chiraag has practical experience in trade mark prosecution matters including conducting trade mark clearance, availability and registrability searches, all aspects of trade mark registration and portfolio management. She is an admitted attorney and a member of the Legal Practice Council.

Esmé is a qualified attorney and trade mark practitioner specialising in trade mark prosecution matter. Esmé has also been involved in trade mark litigation relating to trade marks, copyright, passing-off, domain name disputes, company name objections and advertising and regulatory issues in South Africa.

Lebohang Mosala is an Associate in the Trade Mark Prosecution Department. She has experience in conducting trade mark availability searches, filing trade mark applications and further prosecution thereof. Duties also include providing opinions relating to copyright matters.

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.

Thembani is an Associate in the Trade Mark Department in Pretoria.

Vianca is an Associate in the Trade Mark Department. She is an admitted attorney and holds an LLB and LLM in commercial and business law.