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# Reinard Krüger

Partner, Spoor & Fisher South Africa,
Pretoria

[r.kruger@spoor.com](mailto:r.kruger@spoor.com)
[+ 27 12 676 1680](https://spoor.com/tel:+ 27 12 676 1680)
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Reinard Krüger is a Trade Mark and Copyright Attorney with LLB and LLM degrees. He is an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa and a Notary Public.

Reinard has over a decade of experience specialising in enforcing IP rights. This includes trade mark infringement and prosecution, passing-off, unlawful competition matters, trade mark oppositions, copyright opinions and litigation, company name objections and domain name disputes.

He has experience in foodstuffs and cosmetic labelling complaints, as well as the enforcement of anti-counterfeiting, with a focus on anti-counterfeiting in Africa.

## Industry Associations

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

- Member – Legal Practice Council (LPC)

## Market Recognition

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

- World Trademark Review (WTR) 1000 – Trade Mark Enforcement and Litigation, 2025-present

## Professional Activities

- Interpol brand identification training across Africa, 2014-2019

- IP training at the Johannesburg Chambers of Commerce and Industry, 2019

- Guest lecturer on IP law: Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies, 2019-2022

- Guest speaker on IP Law: Tshwane University of Technology, 2016

- Keynote speaker: National Small Business Chamber, 2019

- Author of article on New Industrial Property Code in Mozambique, in MIP – Africa, 2016

- TV interviews: NSBC, Business Day, CNBC Africa, 2019

- Author of various articles for World Trademark Review, 2017-2018

- Author of Trade Marks, Trade Names and Unfair Competition, in World Law and Practice: Release 62 (Lesotho), 2017

- Co-author of Chapter 91 Laws of South Africa with commentary chapter, World Intellectual Property Rights and Remedies (Centre for International Legal Studies), 2016

- Guest lecturer on IP law: University of Pretoria Intellectual Property Centre, 2022