Dario Tanziani > Adams & Adams > Pretoria, South Africa > Lawyer Profile
Adams & Adams Offices
LYNNWOOD BRIDGE, 4 DAVENTRY STREET,
LYNNWOOD MANOR,
PRETORIA
South Africa
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Dario Tanziani
Work Department
Patents
Position
Partner | Patent Attorney
Career
Dario has over 30 years’ post-qualification experience and has represented a variety of multinational research based pharmaceutical companies in blockbuster drug patent litigation leading to landmark decisions in this field. He has served as Patent Department and Firm Chairman. Dario’s practice currently includes patent searches, assignments and recordals, reviews and prosecution of incoming patent applications and claim amendments. Dario also heads up the Patent Renewals Section which handles a portfolio of 30 000 patent renewals around the world. He has also contributed on aspects of South African and African patent law in several books and professional periodicals.
Languages
English
Memberships
Memberships
- Legal Practice Council (LPC) – Member
- Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) – Member and past President of South African Group
- The South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law (SAIIPL) – Fellow
- Pretoria Attorney’s Association (PAA) – Member
Accolades
- ACQ – Patent Lawyer of the Year | 2015
- Best Lawyers® – Intellectual Property Law: South Africa | 2016 – 2023
- Finance Monthly Global Awards – Patent Lawyer of the Year (South Africa) | 2016 – 2017
- IAM Patent 1000 – Individuals: Litigation | 2015 – 2022
- IFLR: Patent Expert Guide – Experts for Patents | 2019
- Lawyer Monthly Legal Awards Winner: Life Sciences – Lawyer of the Year – South Africa | 2019
- Legal 500 – Recommended Lawyers: Intellectual Property | 2023
- MIP – IP Stars: Patents | 2017 – 2023
- Who’s Who Legal – Patents | 2015 – 2022
- Who’s Who Legal – Life Sciences | 2016 – 2017
Education
- Registered Patent Attorney | 1988
- Admitted Attorney | 1988
- BProc – University of South Africa | 1987
- Qualified Patent Agent | 1986
- BSc (Chemistry & Maths) – University of Pretoria | 1982
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.