Adams & Adams appoints new patent partner
18/11/2008

Adams & Adams has appointed patent attorney Alexis Apostolidis as a partner.

Apostolidis specialises in pharmaceutical patent litigation, the drafting of chemical, pharmaceutical and petrochemical related patent specifications and competition law, including mergers and acquisitions.

With nine years of experience, he was admitted as an attorney in 2002 and qualified as a patent attorney in 2004. He holds a BSc in Chemistry and Law and an LLB (cum laude) from the University of the Witwatersrand.

Apostolidis is a fellow of the SA Institute of Intellectual Property Law. He is also a member of the International Federation of Intellectual Property and the Law Society of the Northern Provinces, on whose competition law committee he sits.