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)