Services
Protecting Your Ideas, Empowering Your Growth.
Patents
Our professional services include:
- patent application drafting and filing (locally and internationally);
- legal opinions on patents (infringement, validity, enforceability);
- novelty and freedom-to-operate searches;
- enforcement and defence of patent rights;
- due diligence investigations (including pharmaceutical and pesticide patent checks);
- patent portfolio management.
Registered Designs
Our professional services include:
- preparation and filing of applications for the registration of a design (locally and internally);
- legal opinions on design registrations (infringement, validity, enforceability);
- enforce and defence of design registrations;
- due diligence investigations;
- freedom-to-operate searches;
- design registration portfolio management.
Trade Marks
Our professional services include:
- Filing of South African and international trade mark applications.
- Conducting availability and registrability searches.
- Providing legal opinions on trade mark infringement, validity, and enforceability.
- Enforcing our clients’ trade mark rights and defending against infringement claims.
- Auditing and managing trade mark portfolios.
- Assisting with the commercialisation of trade marks.
Copyright
Our professional services include:
- legal opinions on copyright validity, enforcement, and infringement;
- enforce and defence of copyrights;
- due diligence investigations;
- registration of copyright in cinematograph films.
Plant Breeders’ Rights
Our professional services include:
- Preparation, filing, and prosecution of plant breeders’ rights and varietal listing applications.
- Advising on the importation of plant material for evaluation.
- Legal opinions on the validity and enforceability of plant breeders’ rights.
- Enforcement of plant breeders’ rights.
- Defending against infringement claims.
- Managing plant breeders’ rights portfolios.
- Assisting with the commercialisation of plant breeders’ rights through licensing and other agreements.
Anti Counterfeit
Our professional services include:
- Assisting with the identification and reporting of counterfeit goods.
- Filing complaints and coordinating with authorities to seize counterfeit products.
- Providing legal opinions on anti-counterfeiting actions.
- Representing clients in legal proceedings against counterfeiters.
- Advising on anti-counterfeiting strategies, including customs watch programs and enforcement of border controls.
Commercialisation of IP Rights
Our professional services include:
- drafting of ownership-, licence-, manufacturing-, distribution-, and franchise agreements;
- preparation of applications for exchange control approval from the South African Reserve Bank;
- due diligence investigations;
- valuation of intellectual property rights (including patents, design registrations, trade marks, and copyrights).
- General commercial agreements.
- Commercial litigation and arbitration.
- Commercial due diligence and transactions.
- Legal and regulatory compliance.
- Escrow transactions.
Labour
Our professional services include:
- Drafting employment contracts to ensure IP protection and compliance with labour laws.
- Representing clients in the CCMA and Labour Court for disputes over unfair dismissals or workplace practices.
- Enforcing IP rights against ex-employees, including obtaining Anton Piller orders and other legal remedies.
- Advising on workplace policies to align with South African labour laws and safeguard sensitive business information.
- Assisting with employment equity compliance and disciplinary procedures.
Unlawful Competition
Our professional services include:
- Preparation of legal opinions on the merits of unlawful competition claims.
- Litigation services: Instituting and defending legal actions based on unlawful competition under South African common law.
