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Office	Pretoria

Position	Partner
Profession	Patent and Trade Mark Attorney
Nationality	South African
Post Qualification Experience	38 years

Academic	BSc - University of Natal (1973) BProc - University of South Africa (1978)

Qualifications	Patent Agent (South Africa) (1976) Patent Agent (Namibia) (1977) Attorney of the High Court of South Africa (1978) Attorney of the High Court of Lesotho (1979)

Specialisations	High Court and other litigation in the following fields Trade Marks Unlawful competition Copyright Designs Advertising disputes

Involvement	Statutory Advisory Committee on Copyright, Trade Marks, Patents and Designs (until 1999) SA Institute of Intellectual Property Law (SAIIPL) - Fellow, Councillor and Past President (1996) International Federation of Industrial Property Attorneys (FICPI) - member Licensing Executives Society of SA (LES) - member International Federation of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) - member Association of Pretoria Attorneys - member Law Society of the Northern Provinces - member Law Society of the Cape of Good Hope - away member Law Society of KwaZulu Natal - away member Adams & Adams: Chairman (1996 - 2006 and 2007 - 2009)

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Union-Swiss, the Applicant, is a manufacturer and supplier of a skin care product under the trade mark Bio-Oil which has as its principal ingredient a synthetic preen gland oil identified by the trade mark Purcellin Oil. Medpro Pharmaceutica (Pty) Ltd (t/a Cipla Medpro), the Respondent, formulated a directly competitive product under the trade mark Oil La Sante and listed Purcellin Oil as one of its ingredients.

The Applicant, the proprietor of a trade mark registration for Purcellin Oil, instituted proceedings against the Respondent based on trade mark infringement in the Cape High Court.

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