meet the team

Lienkie is currently completing her LLB degree and is working towards becoming a trademark attorney.

She achieved her honours degree in Corporate Communication through the North West University and was a lecturer at the University of South Africa (UNISA) in their Communication Science department prior to joining Bredenkamp Attorneys Inc.

Brian Wimpey studied law at the University of the Witwatersrand and completed his B. Proc. and post-graduate LLB in 1983.

He was admitted as an attorney in 1986 and has practiced exclusively in intellectual property for 37 years. Brian was elected as a Fellow of the South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law (SAIIPL) in 1991 after passing its specialist exams and was President of the South African Institute of Intellectual Property (SAIIPL) from 2009 to 2010. Since 1995, Brian has been a lecturer and examiner in respect of the group 1 and 2 trademark exams offered by the Institute.

Brian is also senior adjudicator of the ADR-ZA Domain Dispute Resolution Authority. Brian’s experience comes from a range of contentious and non-contentious trademark, copyright and related work and he has run a number of interesting litigation matters before both the registrar of trademarks and the High Court for major international and local clients.

Brian has contributed to the international publications World Trademark Review (https://www.worldtrademarkreview.com/) and the Life Sciences Law Review 2nd edition, and the Intellectual Property Magazine (https://www.intellectualpropertymagazine.com/) among others.

Karen is a Fellow of the South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law (SAIIPL), and an attorney that is dual qualified in Zimbabwe and South Africa who holds a B.Com (Information Systems) degree (University of Cape-Town), and an LLB degree (University of Cape-Town).

She has over 15 years of experience in Intellectual Property (IP) Law practice, specializing in trade mark and copyright law. She has assisted local and international clients in a variety of industries with streamlining and protecting their intellectual property rights, in particular their trade mark portfolios, and the prosecution, registration, commercialisation, and enforcement of same.

She also furnishes clients with advice on food labelling, copyright, IP valuations, and transfer of IP rights across borders, which includes offering structuring, licensing, and transfer pricing insight.