
TRADE MARK COMMERCIALISATION
Owners of trade marks can often exploit the commercial value of that intellectual property by licensing other people to use their intellectual property in a controlled manner. Allowing someone to use your intellectual property under licence would typically ensure a regular royalty stream as well as enhancing the awareness of your brand through the marketing and activities of the licensee.
The Trade Mark Prosecution Group of Adams & Adams is able to assist you with the following commercialisation services:
- License and royalty agreements
- Full intellectual property valuations
- Intellectual property due diligence
- Deeds of security and hypothecation
- Recordal of licenses
- Assignment and transfer of ownership
Contact one of our trade mark law professionals
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Alicia van der Walt (née Castleman)
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.
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Amina Suliman
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.
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Bilkis Daby
Bilkis is a partner in the Trade Marks Department, holding a LLB degree from the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
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Blain de Villiers
Blain de Villiers is a partner in the Trade Marks Department, a top-tier ranked attorney and Trade Mark Practitioner.
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Darren Olivier
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.
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Eugene Honey
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.
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Johan du Preez
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.
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Joseph Goedhals
Joseph Goedhals is a partner in the Trade Marks Department, holding B Com (Law) and LLB (Tuks) degrees.
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Lauren Ross
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.
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Lita Miti-Qamata
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.
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Lucy Signorelli
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.
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Megan Moerdijk
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.
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Nelia Hickman
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.
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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.
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Nishi Chetty
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.
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Nolwazi Gcaba
Nolwazi has over twenty 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.
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Sajidha Gamieldien
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.
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Samantha Copeling
Samantha is a partner in Adams & Adams’s Trademark Department. She graduated with an LLB from Cape Town University in 1990.
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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.
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Stephen Hollis
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.
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Steven Yeates
Steven advises clients on all issues relating to trade mark selection, searching, registration and enforcement. He is actively involved in creating, implementing and managing trade mark portfolios, enforcement programmes and management strategies, on behalf of our international and local clients in a number of African countries.
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Wensel Britz
Wensel advises clients on trade mark portfolio management and registration strategies world-wide across various industries.
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Alissa Nayanah
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.
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Femke van Dyk
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.
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Kagisho Manyashi
Kagisho started his career in Intellectual Property law as a Trade Mark Examiner at the South African Trade Marks Office.
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Mohamed Jameel Hamid
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.
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Nicholas Rosslee
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.
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Therése Davis
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.
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Udi Pillay
Udi Pillay is a Senior Associate in the Trade Mark Department at Adams & Adams in Durban.
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Chiraag Maharaj
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.
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Daniëlle van Rooyen
Danielle is an associate in the Trade Mark Litigation department. She specialises in IP commercialisation, with her focus areas ranging from trade mark searches, filings & trade mark prosecution to brand enforcement and IP due diligence including, infringement and opposition proceedings, domain name disputes and company name objections.
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Esmé van Rooyen
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.
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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.
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Lebohang Mosala
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.
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Maureen Makoko
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.
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Thembani Nkabinde
Thembani is an Associate in the Trade Mark Department in Pretoria.
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Vianca McCall
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.