Darren Olivier

Johannesburg Area, South Africa South Africa

Partner

Legal

I have advised on intellectual property (IP) law for almost 20 years. I am especially interested in IP management, commercialisation and enforcement in Africa but worked for a decade in London, focusing on Europe. I sit on the editorial board of Oxford University Press: Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice and you can catch me as Afro Leo on the Afro-IP weblog, which I started a few years ago. I tweet from @afroip. My work has been recognised by Who's Who Legal, Chambers Global, World Trademark 1000, Legal 500, South African Institute of IP Law and Managing Intellectual Property as quoted below. Some interesting cases include litigating the first keyword case in Africa, fil...