Dr Madelein Kleyn

Dr Madelein Kleyn is the CEO and founder of Mad K IP Consulting (Pty) Ltd.

The 30 years in corporate environment enables me to serve the business!

Madelein is a qualified chemical engineer (BSc Chem Eng.), an admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa and a registered South African patent attorney. She holds the post graduate qualifications of LLM (tax law) and PhD (intellectual property). Her technical proficiencies are in the fields of petrochemicals, chemistry, process engineering, explosives and agriculture.

Her expertise includes, amongst others, IP Portfolio management, IP policy and strategy development and implementation, IP Commercialisation inclusive of contract drafting and negotiation, IP litigation and patent and trademark oppositions. Training is also a passion of hers. She regularly advises on corporate governance and IP risk management and specialises in drafting and advising on IP-related business transactions, including technology transfer and licensing.

Madelein tutors part time for the World Intellectual Property Organisation e-learning programme on IP management. She is appointed as research associate and fellow of the Anton Mostert Chair of Intellectual Property, Stellenbosch University Faculty of Law an appointment recognizing proven specialised expertise. She moderates and teaches the patent and design module of the Anton Mostert Chair of IP LLM (intellectual property) course at Stellenbosch University. She is also Director – Technology Transfer at Innovus that is responsible for technology transfer, entrepreneurial support and development, and innovation at the university. We manage the commercialisation of the University’s innovation and intellectual property portfolio through patenting, licensing and the formation of spin-out companies.

Madelein has authored and presented various articles, papers and publications on IP matters internationally specifically on technology and IP licensing and commentaries on national IP related legislation. Since 2014 she is the co-editor of the Lexis Nexis journal “International Pharmaceutical Law “and is also a co-author of the South African Chapter of this publication. She publishes and is the editor of the IP Briefs™ a quarterly newsletter for the South African Institute of Intellectual Property lawyers (SAIIPL). She is a member of American Chemical Society, INTA, LESI (Chair of Patent and Technology licensing Committee), LES SA (Past President) and SAIIPL. Madelein was included in the IAM Strategy 300 – The World’s Leading IP Strategists since 2015 and 2017 and featured in WTR300 World’s leading trademark professionals since 2016.