Alan Smith

Position: Partner

Profession: Trade Mark and Patent Attorney

Nationality: British

Experience: 33 in South Africa, 4 in the United Kingdom years

Academic

BProc - University of South Africa

Qualifications

Admitted attorney (1980)
Patent agent (1976)

Specialisations

Intellectual property (trade marks, copyright and unlawful competition) litigation
Agreements, licensing and franchising
Advertising disputes

Involvement

South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law (SAIIPL) - fellow and past president
Chartered Institute of Patent Agents (CIPA) - associate
Licensing Executives Society - member
American Bar Association (ABA) - member
International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) - member
Pretoria Attorneys’ Association - member
International Federation of Industrial Property Attorneys (FICPI) - member
Examiner for the South African Trade Mark practitioner’s examination of the South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law
Law Society of the Northern Provinces - member
Law Society of the Cape of Good Hope - away member
Natal Law Society - non-practising member