Which South African patent law firms filed the most provisional patents in 2020?
Surprisingly, 2020 didn’t see a significant drop in the number of South African provisional patents filed. Although, the South African Patent Office was closed for a few months during lockdown, the decline in provisional patents simply continued its gradual negative trend.
Adams & Adams remains the top filer of South African provisional patents, S&Z retained its second place for a second year running, while Spoor & Fisher was pushed down another notch, this year by Hahn & Hahn.
Here is the top filing list for 2020:
Patent firm | Provisional patents filed |
---|---|
Adams & Adams | 158 |
S&Z | 104 |
Hahn & Hahn | 81 |
Spoor & Fisher | 66 |
Kisch Africa | 47 |
McCallum Rademeyer & Freimond | 47 |
Smit & van Wyk | 47 |
Edward Nathan Sonnenberg | 42 |
von Seidels | 38 |
Bredenkamp | 29 |
PFT Burger | 20 |
De Beer | 20 |
Dessington & Dessington | 14 |
Taberer | 14 |
Dr Gerntholtz | 13 |
Leon Pierre Susan | 10 |
Tshaya Mashabela | 9 |
Bouwers | 8 |
DT du Preez | 7 |
Richards | 6 |
Dr Samantha Gregory | 6 |
Gunter | 6 |
Brian Bacon | 6 |