Hahn & Hahn, Intellectual Property Lawers

Vani Moodley

Devasena Reddy

Pieter Venter


		Mr. Moodley has many years of experience in the field intellectual property law. Over the years he has worked with many multinational corporations based in the United States, as well as abroad. He has successfully built up the portfolios of many start-up companies in Silicon Valley, some of which have gone on to be acquired by larger companies on the strength of their intellectual property portfolios. Mr Moodley's passion is to work with entrepreneurial companies in order to assist them in their intellectual property portfolio development. Mr Moodley has written and prosecuted patent applications for many Fortune 500 companies. Return to the top


		Ms. Berndt joined the firm at the beginning of 1999 after completing a degree in chemical engineering. She is now a qualified attorney and patent attorney. Claudia's current activities include patent and design searching, providing opinions on novelty and infringement of patents and designs, and drafting and prosecuting local and foreign patent and design applications. Claudia is fluent in English and German, and also has a reading knowledge of French. Return to the top


		Ms. Reddy is a partner in our trademark department. She handles all aspects of trademark procurement, enforcement, and licensing. Return to the top


		Pieter holds B.Sc., B.Sc.(Hons), M.Sc. degrees in chemistry and an LLB degree. He is a qualified attorney and patent attorney. Pieter is interested in all aspects of intellectual property law and is involved in patent litigation and the drafting and prosecution of local and foreign patent applications. Return to the top


		Mr. Ra graduated with a B.Sc. (Biol) and an M.Sc. (Microbiology) in South Korea. Later Youngmi qualified as a Korean patent attorney and practised for 13 years at three of the largest patent and law offices in Korea before moving to the firm Inc in South Africa. Youngmi specialises in filing and prosecution of patent applications worldwide and has extensive international litigation experience in the chemical, pharmaceutical and biotechnology fields. Return to the top


		Mr. Michael holds degrees in electronic engineering and law. He is a qualified attorney and patent attorney. Clyde has been involved in patent and design searching, providing opinions on novelty and infringement of patents and designs and drafting and prosecuting local and foreign patent and design applications since the beginning of 1997. Return to the top


		Mr. Luterek qualifications include a B.Eng (Chemical) and a B.Proc. He is an admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa, a patent attorney and a registered professional engineer. Janusz is also a member of several professional, industrial and legal societies. In 2001 Janusz passed the Australian Institute of Patent and Trademark Attorneys patent drafting examination. Before joining the profession, Janusz worked in the chemical, food and beverage, and pharmaceutical industries for a number of years. Janusz's current activities include patent drafting, litigation, searching, providing opinions on novelty and infringement of patents and designs, and prosecuting local and foreign patent and design applications. Janusz is fluent in English, Afrikaans and Polish and reads Czech. Janusz is also a director of Routledge-Modise Inc's intellectual property group. Janusz’s technical fields of specialization include petrochemical engineering, food and beverage engineering, pharmaceuticals, catalysis, IT and business method related patents while also handling some mechanical and electrical patent applications. Return to the top


		Mr. Williams has mechanical engineering and law degrees, is an admitted attorney and registered patent attorney. He is a fellow of the South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law. Victor moved to the firm from Adams & Adams and is the head of our Trade Marks department. He is involved mainly with litigation and valuations in all areas of intellectual property. Victor is also a director of Routledge-Modise's intellectual property group. Return to the top


		Ms. Lawrence holds B.Comm and LLB degrees; the final semester of the latter degree was completed at the University of Leiden, Netherlands. She also holds a diploma in Corporate Law. Vanessa moved from Adams & Adams to join the firm in 2002. Vanessa is a Trade Mark Practitioner and is primarily involved with Trade Mark litigation, Copyright and Internet matters. Return to the top

Mr. Wheeler has been at the firm's Cape Town office since mid-2003. He holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Law and he is an admitted attorney and registered patent attorney. James also qualified to practice in the United States as a patent agent. He has several years experience in the high-tech field of robotics and provides the full ambit of intellectual property law services in conjunction with the Pretoria office.

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Mr. Dunlop holds mechanical engineering and law degrees. He is a registered professional engineer, a registered patent lawyer in South Africa, Canada and Malawi, and was the President of the South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law. Alan's current activities encompass all aspects of intellectual property, from drafting patent specifications and design applications to copyright, trade mark and unlawful competition advice and licensing contracts.A major part of his practice is conducting patent litigation in the Patent Court and on appeal in the Supreme Court of Appeal. His special interest is design law, he is the Reporter on the FICPI CET2 committee, Chairs the S.A. Design Law committee, and was a national Council member of Design South Africa. Alan is chairman of the Judges Panel of the annual Design Prototype Awards of the Design institute of the SABS and SAIIPL. Alan is the author of numerous papers on intellectual property law and related topics, worked in the Statutory Advisory Committee in drafting amendments to the Copyright Act, the Designs Act and was chairman of the drafting committee of the Petty Patents Act.Alan has worked in the steel industry, gaining valuable experience relating to steel manufacturing technologies and general engineering and computer technology.

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