Biography: Patents

Russell Bagnall has been a partner at Adams & Adams since 1998. Prior to joining Adams & Adams in 1994 he spent several years employed by a multinational mining house, including a period in the R&D department.

Russell specialises in patent litigation and opinion work, mainly in the field of pharmaceuticals and chemistry. He has advised clients on several contentious issues involving pharmaceutical disputes between multinational and generic companies. He also advises pharmaceutical clients on a wider range of issues including licence and distribution agreements, co-promotion agreements and regulatory issues. Russell is also responsible for managing multi-jurisdictional litigation in several African countries.

He is the head of the patent and design litigation group. Russell has been internationally recognised in peer-selected reviews such as The International Who's Who of Patent Lawyers and The International Who's Who of Life Sciences Lawyers. Russell was also ranked in tier 1 for patent litigation in South Africa by IAM 250 – The World's Leading Patent Litigators 2011.

Adams & Adams has been rated in the top tier several times for patent litigation by Managing Intellectual Property and was voted as the South African law firm of the year by MIP in 2011.

Russell is an active member of the South African group of AIPPI and is also a member of FICPI. He is also a fellow of the South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law and is the convenor of the Patent Law Committee which engages government on legislative issues on behalf of its members.

Russell obtained a BSc [Eng] (chemical, metallurgical and material science) from the University of Witwatersrand in 1989 and a BProc degree from the University of South Africa in 1996. He was admitted as an attorney of the South African High Court in 1996 and as a patent attorney in 1998.

Other Practice Areas

Russell Bagnall also features in the following practice areas:

• Life Sciences