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.
Janusz has more than 3 decades experience in the technology and IP industry.
His qualifications include a B.Eng (Chemical) and a B.Proc. He is an admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa, a patent attorney and a registered professional engineer. Janusz is also a member of several professional, industrial and legal societies. Before joining the profession, Janusz worked in the chemical, food and beverage, and pharmaceutical industries for a number of years and currently provides IP, regulatory, and product liability services in these industries and focuses on the drafting, prosecution and litigation of patents, and regulatory compliance focusing of food and consumer products.
Janusz is a senior adjudicator of the Institute of Intellectual Property Law’s alternate dispute resolution provider for settling domain name disputes.
Alan Lewis was a partner of the prestigious South African IP law firm Adams & Adams, in its Johannesburg office and is now proprietor of a boutique practice, Lewis Attorneys, which specialises in IP commercialisation.
Alan was a member of the firm’s patent department and concentrated on filing, prosecution, litigation and transactional aspects in regard to patents, registered designs, copyright and trade secrets, both nationally and internationally. He has a BSc with Physics and Maths as majors, a BSc (Electrical Engineering) (cum laude) and a BProc law degree. He is a patent attorney and was a partner of Adams & Adams from 1977 to 2014. He is also a notary public.
He has been a member and is actively involved in the Licensing Executives Society. He was President of the Licensing Executives Society International in 2011, having been President of LES South Africa in 1994/95 and again in 2005/6 and a Vice President of LESI from 2005 to 2007. He is an Emeritus Certified Licensing Professional and acted as an adviser to various African countries in regard to commercialisation of intellectual property.
Alan filed and successfully prosecuted many patent applications in South Africa and internationally, successfully litigated many high profile IP cases, assisted in negotiating and concluding commercially important and valuable IP agreements and he provided valuations for many intellectual property rights, including valuations for Exchange Control approval, all of which were approved. Still further, Alan has assisted SARS in a transfer pricing matter.
In addition, he recently successfully acted as an expert on behalf of the Department of Government Communications & Information Systems in litigation, in which the South African Government was sued for about R10B for copyright infringement. He has also presented numerous papers at conferences and seminars in South Africa and overseas on a variety of IP and licensing issues and has conducted training courses in regard to the management and valuation of intellectual assets.
He was also involved in several due diligence investigations, in particular for Net 1 UEPS when it listed in the US. He is also the contributor for Trade Secrets Throughout the World (published by Thomson West) in regard to South Africa and was a member of an expert group assisting UNCITRAL in formulating guidelines on security interests relating to IP.
