The necessity of reducing licensing agreements to writing

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About the Author
Allison Williams is an intellectual property and commercial lawyer based in Durban. She is an expert contributor to LexisNexis South Africa’s online solution, Practical Guidance Intellectual Property. She has extensive experience in intellectual property law, including the registration and enforcement of trade marks globally, copyright, passing off and unlawful competition, franchising, domain name dispute resolution and transactional IP work, such as due diligences, licensing, assignments and IP structuring.
Allison has practised in the field of intellectual property law for 18 years. She has managed the global trade mark portfolios for a number of local clients and has filed and enforced trademarks locally for a number of global clients. She is listed as a recommended intellectual property lawyer in Legal 500, 2015.
Allison was selected as one of the 3 finalists in the Business Women’s Association’s 2015 Regional Business Achiever Awards in Kwazulu-Natal (professional category).
Allison has been a fellow of the South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law (SAIIPL) since 2002. She has served on the SAIIPL’s trade mark and copyright law committees. She has also been a member of the International Trade Mark Association and Licensing Executives Society for many years.
Allison has written articles for the China Law Journal and has authored the South African Chapter for “Getting the Deal Through”. Allison completed her BCom LLB degrees at the University of Natal, Durban in 1994. She started her articles in the Durban office of Deneys Reitz in 1995. Allison was admitted as an attorney in 1997, when she started specialising in intellectual property law. She qualified as a trade mark practitioner through the SAIIPL in 2000, after passing specialist exams. Allison was appointed as a director of Deneys Reitz in 2001 and worked in the Johannesburg office until she resigned at the end of 2008. She pursued her career as a director and head of intellectual property in other Johannesburg law firms, before joining Norton Rose Fulbright in January 2014.

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