Chasing Patents is the dedicated patent and intellectual property practice within Gerber Attorneys. The practice provides specialist IP counsel to individuals, small businesses and other law firms without the same offering in-house.
The practice is led by James Gerber, a registered patent attorney with a mechanical engineering background. Work is handled personally and with care. Intellectual property is treated as a strategic asset, not just a legal requirement.
Whether you need one-off patent work, ongoing in-house patent support, or a patent attorney to stand behind your own firm’s offering, the engagement is shaped around the way you actually work.
A full intellectual property offering, from prosecution of patents, designs and trade marks, to flexible counsel arrangements for businesses and law firms.
Patent searches, expertdrafting, filing, and prosecuting to grant, locally and abroad.
Registered design searches, drawing preparation, filing, and prosecuting to grant, locally and abroad.
Trade mark availability searches, filing and prosecution to registration,locally and abroad. Brand protection scoped properly from the outset.
Outsourced, in-house patent counsel for businesses. Part-time IP capability, inclduing strategy, drafting and portfolio management, integrated into the business and scaled to actual workload, without a full-time hire.
Specialist patent and intellectual property consulting for law firms without their own IP offering. Add a registered patent attorney to your service line on a pay-as-you-go basis, keep the client, share the fees.
Outsourced patent drafting as a discrete service. Patent specifications and claim sets prepared on behalf of in-house IP teams, other patent attorneys, or applicants who manage their own filing. Engineering-led drafting, delivered as a stand-alone deliverable ready for filing in the jurisdictions of your choice.
Registered Patent Attorney and Intellectual Property Law Consultant
James is an admitted attorney and a registered patent attorney with a background in mechanical engineering.
Send a short outline of what you’re working on. You’ll get a clear, honest view on the IP path forward — and an indication of what it will take to get there.
Contact the FirmPatent enquiries direct: james@chasingpatents.co.za