Adams & Adams appoints new Chairman

Adams and Adams has again appointed Chris Job as Chairman. 

Job, a partner at Adams and Adams, has 35 years’ experience, specialising in trade mark law, unlawful competition, copyright and designs. His particular field of expertise focuses on High Court and other litigation. 

He joined the firm as a senior partner in its trade marks department in 1993 and became Chairman of the firm in 1999, a position which he held until 2006. 

Job was a member of the South African Government’s previous Advisory Committee on Copyright, Trade Marks, Patents and Designs and chaired its trade marks sub-committee that drafted the Trade Marks Act of 1993. 

He is a Fellow and past President of the South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law and an active member of various international associations in the intellectual property law field.  These include the International Trademark Association, the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property, the Association of Intellectual Property Attorneys and the Licensing Executives Society.  He has published and co-published various articles related to trade marks and copyright.