People-Dr. Owen Dean

Full name	Dr Owen Dean Download VCard
Business phone	27 21 673 4418
Fax number	27 21 683 5952
E-mail address	o.dean@spoor.com
Position	Consultant
Office of practice	Cape Town, South Africa
Qualifications	BA LLB LLD. Attorney of the High Court of South Africa and Notary Public. Admitted as an Attorney in Namibia and Botswana.
Experience	36 years
Fields of practice	Domestic trade mark registration, searches and renewals, domestic and international trade mark litigation, domestic and international copyright, as well as the registration of cinematograph films, entertainment law, media law, advertising objections, unlawful competition, passing off, company name objections and domain name disputes. Owen specialises in trade mark litigation, copyright law, competition law and entertainment and media law. He consults to and acts for various local and international listed companies. Owen is an expert in the field of anti-counterfeiting and was instrumental in writing the SA Counterfeit Goods Act.
Industry associations	Past President of the South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law.
Professional activities	Author of: “Handbook of South African Copyright Law”; the title Copyright in “Butterworths’ Forms and Precedents”; Chapter on Intellectual Property: Patents and Copyright in “Construction Law and Related Issues”, Philip C Loots; Chapter on SA in Butterworths’ “International Privacy, Publicity and Personality Laws”, Michael Henry. Dr Dean was awarded the LexisNexis Butterworths’ Prize for the best article by a legal practitioner published in De Rebus in 2006. Owen is a popular choice to lecture on IP law.