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# Louise Myburgh

Partner, Spoor & Fisher South Africa,
Cape Town

[l.myburgh@spoor.com](mailto:l.myburgh@spoor.com)
[+ 27 21 673 4404](https://spoor.com/tel:+ 27 21 673 4404)
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Louise Myburgh is a Trade Mark Practitioner and has BEcon (Hons) and LLB degrees. She is an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa.

Louise has over two decades of experience in domestic and international trade mark registration and litigation, searches and renewals, domestic and international copyright, advertising objections, unlawful competition, passing off, company name objections and domain name disputes.

## Industry Associations

- Fellow – South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law (SAIIPL)

- Member – MARQUES Copyright and Parallel Trade Team

- Member – International Trademark Association (INTA) Data Protection Committee

- Member – INTA Building Bridges Committee (2024/2025)

- Member – Legal Practice Council (LPC)

- Member – Cape Law Society

## Market Recognition

- World Trademark Review (WTR) 1000 – Enforcement & Litigation, Prosecution & strategy, 2011-present

- Listed – Who’s Who Legal Trademark editions, 2016-2024

- Lexology Index: Intellectual Property – 2025-present

- Managing Intellectual Property IP Stars – Trade Mark Stars, 2015-present

- Top 250 Women in IP – Managing Intellectual Property, 2018-2019

- Best Lawyers – Intellectual Property Law: South Africa, 2023-present

## Professional Activities

- Co-author of Chapter 91 Laws of South Africa (Centre for International Legal Studies), 2021

- Co-author of the South African chapter of Luxury Law: Jurisdictional Comparisons (The Global Legal Post), 2016

- Guest lecturer on copyright: Institute of Intellectual Property Law

- Guest lecturer for LLM students: Stellenbosch University, 2013-2018

- Speaker at FICPI conference, 2018-2019