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Ursula Baravalle

Ursula is a Director and Patent Attorney at KISCH IP. She has experience in:
Drafting local and foreign chemical, petrochemical, biochemical, microbiological and pharmaceutical-related patent specifications;
Prosecuting international patent applications relating to these fields;
Drafting patent validity opinions, patent infringement opinions and patentability opinions;
Preparing and filing design registrations;
Furnishing legal opinions of validity and infringement of design registrations;
Technical expertise includes chemistry, petrochemistry, biochemistry, microbiology and pharmacology.

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A concise guide for startups: Don’t begin just to be blown away

For startups, the most valuable assets are often those which are invisible. Intellectual Property (IP) rights are immensely important for startups as these rights grant their holder exclusive right to commercially exploit their IP for a duration of time. At their…

Owning doomsday – Can the COVID-19 virus be patented?

A peek into the patentable merit of the Coronavirus in South Africa As the COVID-19 pandemic has spread across the globe over the last few months, a race against time has ensued as companies scramble to find a cure and be the first to own patent rights to a vaccine against…