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Eben van Wyk

Eben van Wyk
Director, Intellectual Property, Cape Town
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^ Summary profile

Eben van Wyk is a director in the Intellectual Property department of Cliffe Dekker and has over 8 years of experience in Intellectual Property Law. He has assisted many national and international clients with brand clearance searches and protection and enforcement programmes and has experience in Intellectual Property aspects relating to commercial matters. He also has extensive experience in Intellectual Property aspects of due diligence investigations.

^ Professional experience

Eben began his career in 1999 as a Trade Mark and Companies search clerk at the Registrar of Trade Marks and the Registrar of Companies for Hofmeyr Herbstein Gihwala Inc. In 2000 Eben he served his articles of clerkship at Jan S De Villiers and practiced as a professional assistant from 2002. In 2004 Eben moved to a software development company as their legal advisor and operations director until 2005 when he joined Cliffe Dekker as a senior Associate. Eben was appointed as a director of Cliffe Dekker in 2007.

^ Education/qualifications

Bproc., University of Potchefstroom
Member of the South African Institute for Intellectual Property Law
Date of admission: 2002

^ Expertise

Eben has extensive experience in assisting and advising clients with regards to Intellectual Property rights in the liquor, insurance, retail, publishing and mobile cell phone content provider industries. He is well versed in all aspects of intellectual property law including trade mark clearance searches, prosecution and registration of trade marks, copyright matters, trade practices, trade mark infringement and passing off matters and commercial matters relating to intellectual property such as licensing agreements and intellectual property due diligence investigations.

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