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Bruce Lister is a qualified conveyancer, notary and attorney and is a Fellow of the South African Institute of Intellectual Property Lawyers.

He graduated from the University of Cape Town with a Bachelor of Business Science (Honours) and Bachelor of Laws and has been practising since 2001, initially with a large, intellectual property specialist firm, where he was a partner for six years, and under Bruce Lister Inc since 2011.

Bruce has been involved with trade mark filings, prosecution, recordals (transfers of trade marks), foreign exchange transactions involving intellectual property and trade mark valuations. He also has significant experience in:

• Copyright issues
• Franchises
• Licenses
• IT related agreements
• Commercialisation of intellectual property and related
  commercial agreements.

Bruce is published in these fields and has presented at numerous conferences, both locally and internationally. He has also been interviewed on national radio and television as a subject matter expert.

He has worked directly with multinational and South African Stock Exchange listed clients, in addition to smaller profile clients.

Bruce is currently a member of the South African Law Society and Law Society of the Northern Provinces. In addition he is a member and previous board member of the Licensing Executives Society (LES) of South Africa (the local branch of a fourteen thousand strong international society), and was on the organising committee for the international LES conference held in Sandton in 2010. Bruce is also a member of the International Federation of Intellectual Property Lawyers (FICPI).