Managing Associate
The Managing Associate of Tubego-Bulawayo Attorneys in association with the IP Associates, Dr Bernard Tubego-Bulawayo is an Attorney of the Courts of Botswana, with special interest in Commercial Litigation and Intellectual Property Law (Patents, Industrial Designs, Trademarks, and copyright). He has served in the Research, Science, Technology and Innovation space in Botswana at various stations in different capacities for more than twenty years culminating in executive leadership.
Dr Tubego-Bulawayo holds a PHD Chemical Engineering (Cape Town), an MA Biotechnological Law and Ethics (Sheffield), an MSc Biotechnology (Zimbabwe), a BSc Biology and Chemistry (Botswana), a Bachelor of Laws (LLB, UNISA); Diplomas in legal and business studies, and product manufacturing and design; as well as Certificates in Patent drafting; Technology Transfer & Licensing; and Intellectual Asset management, from institutions that include the WIPO Academy, the Global Intellectual Property Academy , United States Patent and Trademarks Office, and Centre d’Etudes Internationales de la Propriete Intellectuelle (France). He has undertaken Research Fellowships with the Osaka Municipal Technical Research Institute (Japan) and Shriram Institute for Industrial Research (India).
Dr. Bulawayo is a member of the International Intellectual Property Law Association (IIPLA); Licensing Executives Society International (LESI) and Associate of the South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law (SAIIPL). He is a former Board member of the Companies and Intellectual Property Authority (CIPA-Botswana) having served from the entity’s formation for two five-year terms, and a former member of the Council of University of Botswana Council.
Dr Bulawayo is enthusiastic about the limitless opportunities that intellectual property and knowledge management can bring to creatives, technology entrepreneurs and the diversification of regional product space.
BOARD OF ASSOCIATES
- Bernard Tubego-Bulawayo BSc, MSc, MA, PhD, LLB (Attorney, Botswana)
- Jacob Holland BSc, MBA, MIP, PhD (Intellectual Property consultant, Botswana)
- Gideon Masilo, AAT, LLB (Attorney, Botswana)
- Jabulani Mthombeni, BSc, Msc, LLB (Patent Attorney, South Africa)
- Mohamed Mostafa Amer, BSc, MIP (Intellectual Property Consultant, Egypt)
- Anthony L. Mwila LLB (Attorney, Zambia)
- Forward Gundu, LLB, MIP (Attorney, Zimbabwe)
- Stella Nkemdilim Ani NCE, LLB, LLM (Attorney, Nigeria)
OTHER RESOURCES
- Attorneys
- Conveyancers
- Notaries
- Associates
- Patent & Trademark Agents
- Creative Consultants
- Product Design Teams