Patents

The Patent Department practises from our head office in Pretoria – where the Patent Office and the Court of the Commissioner of Patents are located – as well as from our branch offices in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban. The Patent Department has a professional staff complement of 18 partners, three associates, three professional assistants, five candidate attorneys and eight paralegals assisted by support, administrative and secretarial staff. The partners and the associates are all qualified attorneys and patent agents, and all have engineering or science degrees. The professional assistants are fully qualified attorneys with technical degrees and are in the process of qualifying as patent agents. The Patent Department renders a full range of legal services in a wide variety of technical fields such as biotechnology, chemical engineering, chemistry and pharmaceuticals, electrical and electronic engineering, mechanical engineering, plastics and polymer technology, computer technology and civil engineering. The patent services offered include the following:

• drafting
• filing
• prosecuting
• all aspects of patent litigation
• searching
• licensing
• renewals
• technology transfer

For further information please
contact us or download our Local Patents Pamphlet (in English)  or our
Plaaslike Patentpamflet (in Afrikaans).