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Office	Pretoria

Position	Partner
Profession	Patent Attorney
Nationality	South African, British
Post Qualification Experience	7 years

Academic	BEng (Electronic) - University of Pretoria (2000) LLB - University of Pretoria (2003)

Qualifications	Admitted attorney (2006) Registered patent attorney (2006)

Specialisations	Drafting patent specifications (particularly in the fields of electronic and computer related inventions) Filing and prosecuting local and foreign patent applications Filing and prosecuting local and foreign industrial design applications Patent searches and competitive analyses

Involvement	Law Society of the Northern Provinces - member South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law (SAIIPL) - member Licencing Executives Society - member International Association for the Protection of Industial Property AIPPI - member

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Amendments to patents when court proceedings are pending
A patent amendment application filed at the same time as an application for an interdict and restraining order

On 7 December 2009, Judge Claasen, sitting as the Commissioner of Patents for the Republic of South Africa, delivered his judgment in the matter of Sanofi-Aventis and two others (“Sanofi”) vs Cipla Medpro (Pty) Limited and another (“Cipla”) in the Court of the Commissioner of Patents.

The matter relates to the procedural requirements for filing an application for the amendment of a patent specification during Court Proceedings, which is not the normal approach to applying for an amendment, and more particularly to an interpretation of the word “pending” in terms of the South African Patents Act.

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The firm practises directly in several Southern African countries and through long-established associates in others.