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Von Seidels is a leading intellectual property law firm in Africa. We specialise in protecting and enforcing IP rights throughout Africa. We have offices in South Africa, ARIPO (Namibia), OAPI (Cameroon), Nigeria and Kenya. Von Seidels won “Patent Firm of the Year – South Africa” at the 2026 Managing IP Awards.

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Improving a process: An improvement can be more valuable than the original invention
27 August 2026 When discussing great inventions, attention is usually given to the original breakthrough. Yet many of the world’s most commercially successful technologies were not built on entirely new inventions, but on improvements to existing ones. South Africa provides one of the clearest examples of this. Sasol is widely recognised as a global leader in commercial-scale synthetic fuels production through its expertise in Fischer-Tropsch...
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