We are qualified Patent Attorneys and practicing Admitted Attorneys of the High Court of South Africa based in Pretoria East but serving the entire country.
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1. Intellectual property ("IP") is any idea that can converted into an actual thing usable in trade in the real world. An example is an idea about a new business, or an idea about a new product., logo, app and so forth.
If launched into market without proper legal protection or registration, an idea can be copied by other people or companies without much legal recourse being available to the owner of the idea.
WE OFFER ASSISTANCE IN PROTECTION OF THESE IDEAS / IP THROUGH THE FOLLOWING MEDIA:
1.1 Patents for Inventions
A patent gives a person the right to use an invention to the exclusion of everyone else in the territory in which it is granted. If an inventor gets a South African patent, they can stop people from making, selling, using or even advertising the invention without their permission.
1.2. Trademarks
A Trademark is an entrepreneur's mark of trade. Loosely-speaking, a trademark is the 'branding' used on the entrepreneur's products, invoices, advertising, letters and so forth. It can be a name, an image or both. Registering a trademark gives the entrepreneur the certainty that any person who mimics the trademark shall be stopped and probably even made to pay damages.
1.3. Copyright
Ideas have to be written down (.g. lyrics, books and articles), recorded (e.g. films, sound and music), crafted as art (e.g. paintings and sculptures) or otherwise reduced to some material form. We advise on all these forms of copyright: how to protect it, how to enforce it and, where registrable, how to register it.
ALSO, WE KNOW THAT OUR CLIENTS ARE ENTREPRENEURS OR BUSINESS PEOPLE. WE THEREFORE ALSO OFFER ASSISTANCE IN COMMERCIALISATION OF THE BUSINESS IDEAS/IP BY DOING THE FOLLOWING:
2.1. MARKET ANALYSIS
An exercise of determining the Consumer demand, consumption, trends; Competition, Partnership opportunities and other factors in order to help grow our clients' business/Intellectual Property.
2.2. DUE DILIGENCE
An exercise in determining potential risks and solutions thereto in business deals to assist clients to decide wisely;
2.3. CONTRACT DRAFTING
The creation of binding Agreements of partnership, shareholding, sale, lease, merchandising, import, export, licence, labour etc.
We look forward to working with you.
Yours in service,
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