Ivan Lipshitz is an Israeli and South African commercial attorney with over 35 years’ experience both in private practice and in-house. Adv. Lipshitz holds a BA. LLB from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Before joining JMB Davis Ben-David as Managing Attorney of the Trademarks and Designs department, Adv. Lipshitz spent 15 years in-house as IP Counsel at a large multi-national diamond group, managing a worldwide portfolio of hundreds of trademarks and designs. His responsibilities included trademark and copyright infringement proceedings, data licensing agreements, website terms of service, and other technology agreements.
Adv. Lipshitz is responsible for overseeing trademark and design prosecution in Israel, the US and globally; trademark and copyright infringement and enforcement; IP dispute resolution, protection strategies, trademark audits and due diligence, software licensing and SaaS agreements, NDAs, assignment agreements and commercial and IP- related agreements.
When not spending quality time with his grandchildren, he enjoys travelling and writing IP -related legal articles.