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Adams & Adams Offices
22ND FLOOR, 2 LONG STREET
CNR. LONG STREET AND HANS STRIJDOM AVENUE
CAPE TOWN
South Africa
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Steven Yeates
Work Department
Trade Mark Prosecution
Position
Partner | Chair – Trade Mark Prosecution
Career
Steven Yeates is a Cape Town-based partner and co-chair of the firm’s Trade Mark Department.
Steven advises clients on all issues relating to trade mark selection, searching, registration and enforcement. He is actively involved in creating, implementing and managing trade mark portfolios, enforcement programmes and management strategies, on behalf of our international and local clients in a number of African countries. He regularly advises clients in relation to copyright disputes and has a vast amount of experience relating to anti-counterfeiting operations and strategies. His key clients include Woolworths, Foschini Retail Group, Cape Union Mart, Shoprite Checkers, Fairview, KWV, Discovery Channel, Clicks Retailers, Oceana Group, Home Box Office and Burger King.
Steven is a co-author of the Practitioner’s Guide to Intellectual Property Law in South Africa, published by LexisNexis and has been listed on an ongoing basis as one of the World’s Leading Trade Mark Professionals in the WTR 1000 since 2011.
Steven holds BCom and LLB degrees from the University of Johannesburg and is a qualified attorney and trade mark practitioner. He is a member of the Legal Practice Council as well as a fellow of the South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law (SAIIPL). Steven is a past member of Anti-counterfeiting Committee and Trade Mark Law Committee of the SAIIPL.
Languages
English; Afrikaans
Memberships
Memberships
- Legal Practice Council (LPC) – Member
- South African Institute of Intellectual Property (SAIIPL) – Past member of Anti-counterfeiting committee and Trade Mark Law committee |2010 – 2016
Accolades
- Chambers Global – Ranked Lawyer | 2019 – 2023
- Who’s Who Legal – Trade Marks | 2019 – 2022
- WTR 1000 – Individuals: Anti-counterfeiting | 2014, 2016
- WTR 1000 – Individuals: Enforcement and Litigation (Silver) | 2018 – 2023
- WIPR – Leaders: Trade Marks | 2022
- Best Lawyers® – Intellectual Property Law: South Africa | 2023
- Best Lawyers® – Advertising Law: South Africa | 2023
- Legal 500 – Recommended Lawyers: Intellectual Property | 2023
Education
- Qualified Trade Mark Practitioner (SAIIPL)| 2003
- Admitted Attorney | 2002
- LLB – Rand Afrikaans University | 2000
- BCom – Rand Afrikaans University | 1998
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.