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Danie Pienaar

Danie Pienaar is a Patent Attorney and has a BEng (Elec) cum laude and an LLB. He is an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa. Danie has a decade of experience in drafting patent specifications, particularly in the fields of electronic and computer related inventions. He assists with filing and prosecuting local and foreign patent applications and industrial designs and specialises in drafting commercial agreements relating to intellectual property. Danie advises on competition law issues, specifically in relation to horizontal and vertical agreements, as well as the interface between competition law and intellectual property. · Spoor & Fisher

South AfricaIntellectual Property, PatentsEnglish, Afrikaans

نبذة

Partner and Patent Attorney at Spoor & Fisher with over a decade of experience drafting and prosecuting patent specifications—particularly for electronic and computer-related inventions—and advising on industrial designs, IP-related commercial agreements, and competition law matters (including horizontal and vertical agreements and the IP–competition interface).

مجالات الممارسة

Intellectual PropertyPatentsIndustrial DesignTechnology & ITCompetition / AntitrustCommercial Contracts

المكتب

الخبرات

Electronic and computer-implemented inventionsSoftware and business-method patentsPatent drafting and prosecutionIndustrial designsIP licensing and commercial agreementsCompetition law (horizontal and vertical agreements)

المؤهلات العلمية

  • BEng (Electronic) (Cum Laude), University of Pretoria (2007)
  • LLB, University of South Africa (2011)
  • Competition Law Certificate Course, University of the Witwatersrand (WITS)

القيد في نقابات المحامين

  • Registered Patent Attorney (2012)
  • Attorney of the High Court of South Africa
  • Member of the Legal Practice Council (LPC)

اللغات

EnglishAfrikaans