Nolwazi Gcaba > Adams & Adams > Pretoria, South Africa > Lawyer Profile
Adams & Adams Offices
LYNNWOOD BRIDGE, 4 DAVENTRY STREET,
LYNNWOOD MANOR,
PRETORIA
South Africa
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Nolwazi Gcaba
Work Department
Trade Mark Renewals
Position
Partner | Trade Mark Attorney
Career
Nolwazi has over twenty years’ post qualification experience in the field of trade mark law. She has in the past focused in trade marks and copyright litigation including passing-off and unlawful competition. She advised clients from divergent industries from fashion and luxury goods, hospitality, fast moving consumer goods, sports, and automotive, to name but a few.
Currently, Nolwazi heads up the firm’s trade mark renewals section.
Nolwazi has occupied leadership positions both in legal practice and in business. She held a Chairmanship position in an Intellectual Property law firm. For a period of eight years, Nolwazi was a non-executive director of Transnet SOC Limited, a logistics South African state owned company.
She served as a Council Member of the South African Institute of Intellectual Property Lawyers (SAIIPL). She also served in the Trade Marks subcommittee of the SAIIPL. She is a member of the Standing Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property Rights, a statutory committee advising the South African Minister of Trade and Industry on Intellectual Property matters. Nolwazi is also a member of INTA’s Parallel Imports committee.
Languages
English; Zulu; Xhosa
Memberships
Memberships
- Legal Practice Council (LPC) – Member
- South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law (SAIIPL) – Former Council Member
- Standing Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property Law (SAC) – Member
Accolades
- WTR 1000 – Individuals: Enforcement and Litigation (Bronze) | 2019 – 2023
- WIPR – Leaders: Trade Marks | 2021 – 2022
- Legal 500 – Recommended Lawyers: Intellectual Property | 2022 – 2023
- Best Lawyers® – Intellectual Property Law: South Africa | 2023
Education
- Qualified Trade Mars Practitioner (SAIIPL) | 2002
- Admitted Attorney | 1998
- LLB – University of KwaZulu Natal | 1995
- Juris – University of Fort Hare | 1992
Lawyer Rankings
South Africa > Intellectual property
At Adams & Adams, the ‘outstanding‘ trade marks and patents team ‘provides thorough and pragmatic advice on all trade mark prosecution and enforcement matters‘. Firm chairperson Kelly Thompson ‘provides phenomenal support in relation to trade mark opposition and infringement matters across the African continent‘, and Janice Galvad oversees patents and designs matters. Dario Tanziani leads the patents and designs renewals and recordals side of the practice, and Nicky Garnett is the key contact for the firm’s African patents and designs work. Nolwazi Gcaba heads up the trade mark renewals section; Godfrey Budeli fronts anti-counterfeiting; and Nishan Singh and Steven Yeates are key names for trade mark litigation and prosecution respectively. Consultant Mariëtte du Plessis
, Darren Olivier, Dale Healy, Alexis Apostolidis, Russell Bagnall, Sophia Smallbones and Darshan Moodley are star names in the department.