What differentiates us is our holistic approach integrating strategy, creativity and law; our deep understanding and experience in building brands, and our global-African reach read more.
AN AFRICA-FOCUSED, TURN-KEY ANDBRAND-LED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND BRAND PROTECTION PRACTICE.
WHAT WE DO
PROTECTING, MANAGING
AND ENFORCING INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY RIGHTS IN AFRICA.
Our Intellectual Property practice helps established and emerging businesses, creative community and individuals in Africa and beyond to identify their valuable brand assets, enforce their rights, and protect them against predatory, abusive and illegal abuse; to develop strategies to leverage and maximise those rights, and to develop policies for their acquisition, use and management.
Intellectual Property
Evaluation, Search,
Registration and
Maintenance
Enforcement,
Litigation and
Prosecution
Fair use, infringement,
anti-counterfeiting, grey
market and trans-shipping
advisory
Audits and
Due Diligence
Negotiations
Valuation and Intellectual
Property strategy for
mergers and acquisitions,
licensing or similar
purchases of assets
Defense and appeals of
regulatory and legal
determinations
Portfolio Analysis, Strategy
and Management
IP protection on
the Internet
Intellectual Property
Strategy and Policy
OUR WORK
A selection of established and emerging businesses, organizations, and the creative community in diverse industries across the private and public sectors that AIP has advised in safeguarding their intellectual property rights across the continent independently and/or through its network of partners.
UNISA
Merger re-branding IP strategy for merger on Unisa,
Vista and Technikon SA, and IP Mediation after a
predatory infringment prior to launch.
Cradle of Humankind
Brand and Intellectual Property Audit,
Strategy and Policy
Minet
Trademarks search, register and protection
Secure domain name
Petit Noir
Copyright Infringement
PRASA
Trademarks search, register and protection
post re-naming from SARCC to PRASA and re-brand secure domain name
ubank
Naming strategy and re-naming from Teba Bank to
uBank, identity and domain strategy and
implementation
Transnet
Intellectual Property Audit, Strategy and Policy
Maxhosa
Copyright Infringement by global chain
Meat Junction
Copyright Infringement
OUR PEOPLE
Our founding principals, supported
by a diverse pool of experienced
professionals, have deep experience
at the intersection of branding, creativity and law across the continent that has enriched their
appreciation of the intangible assets
that emanate from creative
innovation and the management
of all aspects of the related
rights, reputational interests.
Adv. Phelane Phomane
Managing Partner
LLB. MA
Thebe Ikalafeng
Director, Strategy
BSc. MBA. LLM (Intellectual Property Law). CM (SA).
Shane Moore
Director, Litigation.
B.Proc. LLB (Intellectual Property Law)