Nthabi Phaswana

Overview

Nthabisheng Phaswana is a partner in the Africa Patent Department. She holds LLB and LLM (Mercantile Law) from the University of Pretoria. She was admitted as an attorney in 2005. Nthabisheng joined Adams & Adams in 2007 and has been responsible for patent and design enquiries, transactional matters in respect of patents and designs as well as filing and prosecution of patent and design applications throughout African countries outside of South Africa. She has been actively involved in fostering relations between Adams and Adams and the Registrars of various African countries and as result she travels regularly throughout the continent. She has co-authored a book chapter on IP, Innovation and Management in Emerging Economies and a book on IP in Africa.