People-Marco van der Merwe

Full name	Marco van der Merwe Download VCard
Business phone	27 12 676 1218
Fax number	27 12 676 1100
E-mail address	m.vdmerwe@spoor.com
Position	Partner
Office of practice	Pretoria, South Africa
Qualifications	BLC LLB. Attorney of the High Court of South Africa.
Experience	19 years
Fields of practice	Head of trade mark records and formalities department. Domestic trade mark registration, searches and renewals, domestic and international copyright, information technology law and domain names. Marco is a specialist trade mark attorney with extensive experience in computer-related litigation and information technology.
Industry associations	Fellow and Council Member of the South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law.
Professional activities	Author of: Chapter “Computer Contracts” for Butterworths Forms and Precedents. Co-author of: Cyberlaw@SouthAfrica. Contributed to Chapter pertaining to “Contracting on the Internet”. South African correspondent of “Computer and Telecommunications Law Review” (Sweet & Maxwell). Former Treasurer of Association of Pretoria Attorneys and former Copyright lecturer for the Patent Examination Board. Recipient of Microsoft Best Practices Award. Recipient of the Butterworth prize for the best contribution to the DeRebus magazine by a practising attorney.