ANNOUNCEMENT

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Mike du Toit as a Litigation Consultant. He has extensive experience and expertise in trade mark infringement and passing off matters, copyright disputes, domain name disputes, ambush marketing, advertising standards authority dispute resolutions, company name objections and matters involving counterfeit goods.

He is a former head of the litigation department of John & Kernick and Bowman Gilfillan and a founder and a former head of the IP department of Edward, Nathan Sonnenbergs ... read more

We are delighted to inform our clients that for the eighth consecutive year we have been internationally recognised in a global survey conducted by Managing Intellectual Property Magazine as one of the leading Trade Mark Law firms in South Africa. Some 2000 persons were contacted in 70 jurisdictions to compile the results. March 2006 - March 2013.

We are pleased to announce that Shepstone & Wylie, a leading SA law firm established in 1892 with offices in Johannesburg, Durban, Cape Town, Pietermaritzburg, Richards Bay, Ballito and London have appointed de Chalains on an exclusive basis to provide their clients with a full range of high quality trade mark services.
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Established in 1998, de Chalains is a specialist Intellectual Property (IP) law firm with offices in Pretoria and La Lucia Ridge.

The firm is dedicated to providing our clients’ throughout Africa and globally with an integrated, responsive and personal range of superior IP services at affordable cost.

de Chalains is a boutique IP law firm focusing exclusively on the procurement, maintenance, management and enforcement of Intellectual Property rights.

The firms professional staff were originally members of large and well respected South African IP law firms...


and although young, the firm is well established and has come of age due largely to the expertise and dedication of our professional team which has in excess of 150 years combined and extensive experience in different facets of IP law and, in particular, trade marks. Being lean, nimble and dynamic presupposes a degree of flexibility and agility exemplified by our total commitment to personal services tailored to suit our clients' specific needs. Since inception the firm has gained a formidable reputation for accurate and swift service. Our turn-around time in respect of providing search opinions on the registrability of trade marks remains unsurpassed.