About Ursula Baravalle

Ursula Baravalle is head of the patent department. She has more than 20 years' experience in the drafting and prosecution of local and international patent applications filed in the chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, microbiological and biochemical fields. She assists a leading petrochemical company with the drafting and prosecution of their local and international Fischer Tropsch patent portfolios, oligomerisation, tetramerisation and trimerisation patent portfolios. Ursula assists with drafting of patent validity, infringement and patentability opinions including the validity and infringement of design registrations. Her experience includes the method of treatment claims, Swiss-type claims and second medical use claims and the allowability of these claims in South Africa.