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

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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).

Practice areas

Intellectual PropertyPatentsIndustrial DesignTechnology & ITCompetition / AntitrustCommercial Contracts

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South Africa

Spoor & Fisher · 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.

South Africa

Expertise

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

Education

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

Admissions

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

Languages

EnglishAfrikaans