Vishen Pillay

Vishen Pillay is a partner at Adams & Adams. He has a background in electronic engineering (UKZN) and is an admitted attorney as well as a qualified patent attorney.

Vishen specialises in assisting his clients to protect their inventions in the fields of electronics including telecommunications ranging from classical to quantum communication, electrical engineering, computer software including artificial intelligence and blockchain technologies, mechanical engineering, electro-mechanical engineering, and bio-medical engineering.  In particular, he deals with all matters relating to filing and prosecution of patent and design applications in South Africa and abroad, as well as IP strategy.

Vishen has drafted and successfully prosecuted patent and design applications on behalf of many South African Universities, Science Councils, US Fortune 500, and South African Top 100 companies.

In 2016, Vishen was hand-picked by the South African Minister of Science & Technology, at the time, to sit on the National Intellectual Property Management Office (NIPMO) Advisory Board for a period of 5 years. Currently, Vishen serves as a member of the firm’s Management Committee. He is also one of the co-founders and current co-chair of the American Intellectual Property Law Association’s (AIPLA) Africa sub-committee.