Posts Tagged "book"

Book Launch: Owen Dean’s latest novel Summit Syndrome

Posted on Jun 13, 2018

Book Launch: Owen Dean’s latest novel Summit Syndrome

Prof Owen Dean’s latest work, The Summit Syndrome, is still fresh off the presses and is already attracting wide attention and resounding praise (read more here). This fictional courtroom drama is inspired by a real and fascinating copyright infringement/plagiarism case in SA and is a riveting read for everyone. Protea Bookshop will host a launch of the book on Saturday 23 June in the form of an interview with Prof Dean about  the story behind the story and the many peaks along the journey from renowned IP practitioner and leading academic to novelist. The event is open to the...

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Opened With Expectation and Closed With Profit

Posted on Dec 1, 2014

Opened With Expectation and Closed With Profit

Speech delivered by Judge Mabel Jansen at the book launch of Dean & Dyer Introduction to Intellectual Property Law “In our court building, when one wanders in the judges’ corridors, the photographs of all judges who served on the Bench, adorn the walls. One looks at the photographs of judges Galgut, Holmes, Hoexter and many others whom one did not even know existed, and it is with sadness that one realises what a font of knowledge died with each of them. What is also striking is how soon most of the judges died after being appointed: appointed 1971: died 1976; appointed 2002:...

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