The LESI 2010 Conference is pleased to announce the following sponsorship:
Platinum Sponsor
Since its founding days in 1908, Adams & Adams has grown in size from a law practice with two partners to one of the biggest law firms in South Africa with a professional staff complement of 55 partners, 14 associates, 14 professional assistants, two full-time attorney-consultants, 40 candidate attorneys and 38 paralegals. It has also grown in stature to become a law firm recognised both locally and internationally as a leader in the area of intellectual property law and in certain other specialised practice areas, such as High Court litigation. The firm is dedicated to high ethical and professional standards, adheres to a work culture of service excellence and professional competence, and employs cutting-edge technology in its operational systems so as to enhance its service delivery. The core values of the partnership include:
- Maintaining high quality standards in all aspects of its professional practice
- Commitment to client care and service excellence
- Dedication to ethical conduct in all its relationships with clients, colleagues and authorities
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Diamond Sponsor
Finnegan is dedicated to advancing the ideas, discoveries, and innovations that drive businesses around the world. From offices in the United States, Europe, and Asia, our 375 lawyers work with leading corporations and innovators to protect, advocate, and leverage their most important intellectual property assets. Our diverse client base covers a range of industries and technologies, including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, industrial manufacturing, electrical components, medical devices, and computer technologies.
Finnegan’s practice includes all aspects of patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret law, including counseling, prosecution, licensing, and litigation. We also represent clients on IP issues related to international trade, portfolio management, the Internet, e-commerce, government contracts, antitrust, and unfair competition.
The firm’s licensing and IP transactions lawyers have advised small entrepreneurs and Fortune 100 companies in virtually every type of IP-related transaction, including setting up and running licensing programs that have generated significant revenue streams, valuing and pricing technology strategies, drafting enforceable contracts, arbitrating licensing disputes, and counseling on virtually every type of IP agreement including confidential disclosure, material transfer, employment, consultant, joint research, collaboration, settlement, and license. |
Silver Sponsor
BARDEHLE PAGENBERG is one of the largest Intellectual Property law firms in Europe with offices in Germany, France and Spain. The firm offers full service in all fields of Intellectual Property, including all procedures before the patent and trademark offices as well as litigation before the relevant courts.
Selected teams of patent attorneys and attorneys-at-law provide top-quality services tailored to the specific needs of the client and the characteristics of the case. When the firm was set up in 1977, its founders, as one of the first in Germany, pioneered the concept of combining the two professions in one firm for the benefit of the client. Today BARDEHLE PAGENBERG serves an eminent list of international corporate clients, academic institutions and German Mittelstand.
The attorneys a BARDEHLE PAGENBERG have many years of experience in protecting and defending a wide variety of inventions. These range from upmarket sports articles and cosmetics to delicate medical solutions and high tech industrial process patents.
BARDEHLE PAGENBERG attorneys and in-house experts cover all major technical fields and industries.
The firm specializes in legal and procurement services, litigation and counseling in all fields of Intellectual Property. BARDEHLE PAGENBERG combines the professional expert know-how of attorneys-at-law and patent attorneys, European patent attorneys, European trademark attorneys, technical advisors and qualified legal counsel. Members of the firm are active in national and international professional associations and their committees, serve in government expert groups, advisory boards of IP offices and boards of bar associations, are frequent speakers at international IP conferences and publish widely on Intellectual Property Law. |
Founded in 1874 as a firm of patent and trade mark agents, and becoming a firm of attorneys in 1976, D M Kisch has a long and distinguished history in intellectual property law. As one of the leading intellectual property law firms in South Africa, D M Kisch has expanded to now offer clients a full range of commercial services, however much of our practice revolves around the filing and prosecution of trade mark, patent and design applications in South Africa, Africa and the rest of the world. Whilst holding to a proud tradition established over its more than 130 year history, the firm prides itself on providing innovative solutions and combines specialised capabilities and expertise to provide a comprehensive range of legal services for the benefit of our clients |
Hahn & Hahn Inc is a boutique firm of Intellectual Property practitioners specializing in drafting patent specifications and obtaining and protecting Patent, Design and Trademark rights in South Africa, the entire African Continent, and elsewhere in the world. The firm has Afrikaans, English, French, German, and Korean speaking Patent Attorneys and we are able to prepare translations between Afrikaans, English, French, and German as well as correspond in those languages. Our professional staff includes Chemical Engineers, Electronic Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Organic Chemists, Biotechnologists and Physicists, who all practice in the fields of intellectual property law.
Hahn & Hahn Inc represents some of South Africa's and the worlds top Chemical, Biotechnology, Communications, Consumer Goods and Industrial firms in Design, Patent and Trademark matters. These clients enjoy the benefit of over 50 years experience in Design, Patent and Trademark prosecution and litigation. |
For 50 years Sughrue Mion PLLC has protected the universe of ideas by providing strategic counseling to clients in obtaining, maintaining and capitalizing on their intellectual property. When litigation is unavoidable Sughrue’s experienced trial attorneys obtain results that further its clients’ business objectives. Sughrue lawyers have particular expertise before the International Trade Commission and extensive experience in all matters before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Federal and state trial courts and the U.S. Courts of Appeal. A recognized leader in intellectual property law, Sughrue has obtained more U.S. patents for clients than any other firm in the world and is consistently ranked among the top U.S. firms annually for the number of issued U.S. patents and trademarks. |
Media Partners
Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) magazine was launched in July 2003 to address the need for organisations to maximise the value of their IP and other intangibles, and to examine the strategies they can put in place to do this. IAM is unique because it treats IP as a business asset and tool rather than simply as a legal right. With this unequalled appeal to the boardroom, IAM has quickly established itself as the only IP publication that many senior corporate executives read regularly.
Combining a mix of news, analysis, specialist columns and longer features, IAM focuses on how IP rights and other intangibles can be used to drive revenue, improve profitability, increase shareholder value and also provide greater flexibility in the financial markets. The magazine is topical, timely and continually thought-provoking for its subscription audience. Editorial quality and integrity are paramount. The quality of the editorial is guaranteed by an in-house team with long-established track records of writing for many of the world’s leading business publications, including the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times, and by editor Joff Wild – “one of the best in the business”, according to Alain Pompidou, former president of the European Patent Office.
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Managing IP is the world’s leading magazine dedicated to the business of IP. Written for in-house counsel and private practitioners, Managing IP covers recent market developments and emerging business strategies across all areas of global IP asset management. Each issue our international team of journalists based in New York, London and Hong Kong brings together the market’s foremost perspectives to provide our readers with the information they require to protect, manage and maximize their IP portfolio around the globe.
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Polity.org.za, accessible at www.polity.org.za offers up-to-date news and opinion on politics, law and economics in South and Southern Africa. The site is known for its free access to South African legislation, speeches and statements from government officials and political parties. Recently, video and podcast material has been added to the site, including in-depth video interviews with some of South Africa’s leading opinion-makers.
Polity also provides a platform for South African law firms to showcase their expertise through a Legal Briefs section where top lawyers can publish their opinions and research.
A daily email newsletter serves to create awareness of the new developments on the site that will include the latest information on legislative developments, new policy documents and speeches that were added to the site.
The monthly Polity Focus features, published on the site as well as in Engineering News, another publication from the Creamer Media stable, reports on all aspects of South African law.
The site allows access to reports on important court cases and publications from global organisations and think tanks.
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