Herman Blignaut
Global Guide 2024
Band 4 : Intellectual Property
Band 4
About
Provided by Herman Blignaut
Practice Areas
Trade Marks: Merit
Career
Herman Blignaut is a Trade Mark Practitioner with an LLB (cum laude). He is an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa and a Notary Public and he is a Partner at Spoor & Fisher.
Professional Memberships
Fellow – South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law (SAIIPL)
Member – Legal Practice Council (LPC)
Publications
Author of South African chapter: Cross-Border Copyright Licensing – Law and Practice, 2018
Author of South African chapter: Copyright Litigation, 2010 and 2015
Author of copyright chapter in Dean & Dyer: Introduction to Intellectual Property Law (Oxford University Press), 2014
Author of Registered Design & Trade Mark Protection: The Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business (Centre for International Legal Studies), 2006
Contributor of numerous articles to various publications, including Intellectual Property magazine and Without Prejudice, 2007-2018
Chambers Review
Global
Herman Blignaut is a skilled advocate based in Pretoria, where he is regularly engaged on trade mark and copyright litigation and opposition.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Herman Blignaut's work is excellent."
"Herman Blignaut's work is excellent."