The Definitive Guide For Attorneys In South Africa
The Definitive Guide For Attorneys In South Africa
With over 17 years of local and international patent and intellectual property law experience, Elaine has consistently been rated as a leading legal professional - both in South Africa and internationally.
After having founded her first law firm in 2014, Elaine's commercial savvy and innate understanding of client needs had seen the firm grow and flourish under her tutelage, into an award-winning South African IP law firm with over 1500 clients.
Elaine Bergenthuin has been included in the IAM Patent 1000 rankings in 2020, 2021 and 2022, with the following independent review being provided for 2021:
"The law firm has a long list of high-flying clients that have been flourishing under the care of managing director Elaine Bergenthuin. Electronic engineer Bergenthuin brings valuable in-house insight to the table, having spent several years at a multinational information and communications technology company; coupled with a stint at a prominent London patent attorney firm, this guarantees a cosmopolitan, big-picture approach."
Elaine has consistently been recognised as a leading lawyer by the following ratings agencies:
• IAM Strategy 300 - she has been included on the list as one of the Top 300 Intellectual Property Law Strategists internationally in 2017, 2018 and 2019. She is the only Legal Practitioner from Africa to ever have been included on this list.
• IAM Patent 1000 - She has been rated as one of the top 1000 patent attorneys globally in 2020, 2021 and 2022.
Elaine was also shortlisted for the Female Managing Partner of the Year, 2017 by Law Digest Africa. Elaine is also the winner of the South African Business Women's Association (BWA) Regional Achiever in the Professional Category for 2017. Elaine has been included in the Mail and Guardian list of Top 200 Young People. She has also been listed as one of the 100 Most Influential Young South Africans by Avance Media.
Elaine is a member of the following professional institutions:
• SAIIPL - South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law (Fellow)
• AIPPI - International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property
• INTA - International Trademark Association
Elaine has now founded Bergenthuin Law Inc, a South African law firm focussed on local and international patent, trade mark, copyright and commercial IP matters. She is also currently assisting a leading UK/European intellectual property law firm with the drafting and prosecution of their European and UK software, electronics and technology patents.
Elaine recently qualified as a Solicitor of England & Wales.
