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Office	Pretoria

Position	Senior Associate
Profession	Patent Attorney
Nationality	South African
Post Qualification Experience	5 years

Academic	BSc Electrical Engineering – University of Cape Town (2002) LLB – University of South Africa (2008)

Qualifications	Admitted Attorney (2009) Registered Patent Attorney (2009)

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 Section 11D - Research and Development Incentive Patent searches

Involvement	Law Society of the Northern Provinces - member South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law (SAIIPL) - member

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