Spoor & Fisher

Carl van Rooyen is a Trade Mark Practitioner with Bluris and LLB degrees. He is an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa and a Notary Public. Carl has over three decades of experience, specialising in litigation relating to trade marks, copyright and unlawful competition.  

Charles Webster is a Trade Mark Attorney and has a BSc (Computer Science) and an LLB. He is an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa. With over three decades of experience as a trade mark practitioner, Charles specializes in litigation – in particular, trade mark and copyright infringement, passing off, unlawful competition, Advertising Regulatory Board complaints, company name objections and domain name disputes. He has expert knowledge of all aspects of IP portfolio management and acts for a number of local and global blue-chip companies.  

John Foster is a Trade Mark Attorney with BCom (Law) and LLB degrees.  He is an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa. John specialises in domestic and foreign trade mark prosecution and trade mark, copyright and unlawful competition litigation. This includes trade mark oppositions, trade mark and copyright infringement claims, domain name disputes and company name objections. John has a keen interest in advertising law and has been involved in numerous litigious matters before various advertising regulatory bodies, in South Africa and various African countries. He regularly provides advertising pre-clearance advice to a number of multinational companies. John also deals with commercial IP transactions, licensing arrangements and due diligence investigations.