Colin attends to a variety of IP related services, including litigation, but focuses primarily on the drafting, filing and prosecution of patent and design matters in South Africa and abroad. He has experience in drafting and prosecuting applications in various technical fields including mechanical devices, packaging, mining and construction, medical devices, pharmaceutics, polymer processing, process engineering and automation, electronics and information technology.
After obtaining his mechanical engineering degree in 1993, Colin worked as an engineer in the process and petrochemical industries, while studying law part-time, until he commenced his articles of clerkship at Adams & Adams, another South African intellectual property law firm and was admitted as an attorney in 1998 and registered as a patent attorney in 2001 and became a partner of the firm.
At his former firm, Colin initially received training in the drafting and filing of patent and design applications in South Africa and other African countries, but later his work diversified to include patent and design applications abroad; opinion work; due diligence; and searching, filing and prosecution of trade mark applications in South Africa.
In 2005, Colin joined Brian Bacon Inc. and still focused mainly on patent drafting and prosecution, but also diversified his practice further to include commercial drafting work and patent and trade mark litigation in South Africa.
Subsequently, Brian Bacon Inc. has grown to the extent that allowed him to focus more on the drafting and prosecution of patent applications in South Africa and abroad. His extensive track record in this regard has allowed him to gain experience in wide ranging technical fields and also in patent prosecution strategies.
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
BEng (Mechanical Engineering) University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, 1993
BProc (Law) University of South Africa, 1998
LLM (Master of Laws) University of South Africa, 2008
ADMISSIONS
Attorney of the High Court of South Africa
Patent Attorney (South Africa)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Cape Law Society
Fellow, South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law
International Trade Mark Association
