PFT Burger Attorneys | patent | trade mark attorneys is a specialised commercial law firm. The firm undertakes the full range of intellectual property law work, including patents, trade marks, copyright and designs and intellectual property related litigation. However, the principal focus of the practice lies in the area of commercial legal work involving intellectual property and the management of intellectual property. Our head office is situated in Durban, South Africa with satellite offices in Pretoria as well as Kempton Park.
PFT Burger Attorneys | patent | trade mark attorneys consists of Pieter Burger, Kelsey Savig and a team of support staff.
Pieter Burger is a South African patent and trade mark attorney. He has more than 40 years’ experience as a patent attorney. Pieter’s legal career started in 1978 with Spoor & Fisher, one of the most respected specialist intellectual property law firms in the country, a firm well known worldwide. Most of his 12 years at Spoor & Fisher were as a partner in Johannesburg, where he developed a substantial commercial practice. In 1991 Pieter started his own firm relocating from Johannesburg to Durban, but was invited to join Shepstone & Wylie, a large Durban commercial law firm in 1992 as a partner tasked with creating an intellectual property law capacity within the firm. This endeavour enjoyed some success, but Pieter nevertheless decided to re-establish his present firm PFT Burger Attorneys, which he did in 1994.
Pieter Burger has a background in architecture and design and has acquired specialist skills in information technology and the law pertaining to this area of technology. He wrote the section of the authoritative South African text on computer contracts Butterworths Forms and Precedents – Vol 5; Intellectual Property Law – Computer Contracts (first edition).
For many years Pieter was part of the Technology Top 100 core adjudication panel and in the past has been a board member and vice president of the Durban Chamber of Commerce and a member of the board of the SA Chamber of Business.
Pieter practices from Durban.
Kelsey Savig is a South African patent and trade mark attorney with a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering/Chemistry. While studying for her LLB Kelsey worked in the Structural Chemistry laboratories at the University of Witwatersrand.Kelsey was admitted as an attorney in January 2018 and registered as a patent attorney in November 2018. Her legal career started at Smit & Van Wyk, Inc. in 2015. Kelsey was listed as a co-author for 2 science journal publications (in 2012 and 2015).
Kelsey practices in Kempton Park.
Margaret Burger is the general practice manager of the firm. She has a background in education and a Master’s degree in environmental education, which she uses in a related business that consults to small and medium enterprises in the green economy and biodiversity restoration in South Africa.
Sammy Pillay, has a background in administration and accounting. Sammy deals with patent, trade mark and registered design prosecution and renewals.
Indira Maharaj is the accounts manager of the firm.Indira has a demonstrated history of working in the accounting field and keeps up to date with the latest accounting packages.She joined PFT Burger Attorneys after many years in the non-profit organisation sector.
PFT Burger Attorneys | patent | trade mark attorneys specialises in intellectual property law, information and communications technology law (IT and ICT law) and technology-related commercial and corporate law.
More specifically, the firm has experience and expertise in the following areas of law:
opinions, litigation, management and registration in South Africa and abroad in respect of:
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