He is also admitted to and enrolled with the High Court of South Africa, the Legal Practice Council & the Law Society of the Northern Provinces, a fellow of the South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law (SAIIPL); a member and past director & President of the Licensing Society of South Africa (LES SA), a past and present lecturer & examiner for the SA Patent Examination Board & SAIIPL (Patent Specification Drafting), a member of the International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI), the International Trade Mark Association (INTA) and the International Licensing Society (LESI); a past committee member of LESI’s standing committee on Intellectual Property Valuation and a member of the French Association for Management and Valuation of Intangibles (AMAVI) and the Expert Consultative Group on Valuation of Intangible Assets of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO); and a panel member of the ADR International Register, the ADR SA Network and the ADR TG platform for mediators respectively.

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Theo has more than 30 years’ experience in technology and intellectual property (“IP”) related matters and is recognized as an expert in the procurement, protection, enforcement and commercialisation of intellectual property internationally. In this time, Theo has represented private, multinational and public entities, tertiary institutions and national governments in IP related matters, and advised on local & cross-border transactions, research & development programmes, listings, restructurings, mergers, public-private partnerships, industry clustering, SA Reserve Bank approvals, tax write-offs and liquidations, as well as acted as counsel or appeared as expert witness in IP-related disputes in court, arbitration and mediation proceedings, including valuations and the quantification of damages in such proceedings.

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He further has assisted state owned enterprises and tertiary institutions, such as the Department of Science and Technology (“DST”) the South African Bureau of Standards (“SABS”), the Technology Innovation Agency (“TIA”) and the National Intellectual Property Management Office (“NIPMO”), with IP related matters, including the drafting of the Technology Innovation Agency Act and the Intellectual Property Rights from Publicly Financed Research and Development Act, and their Regulations, and has made numerous submissions and presentations to the Parliamentary Standing Committees on Science and Technology and Trade and Industry regarding these Acts and Regulations for various multinationals, LES SA and other interest groups.

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Theo has delivered various papers, seminars and lectures, and participated in numerous panel discussions and workshops locally and abroad regarding IP related issues, including the SA National System of Innovation and its National R&D and IP Strategies and Systems, with stakeholders such as the SA Government (the DTI, DST, SARS and Treasury), NIPMO, the TIA, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Pan African Intellectual Property Organisation (PAIPO), WIPO, the International Partnership for Hydrogen & Fuel Cells in the Economy, LESI and LES SA respectively.