RNMS Inc

Turn intellectual property into commercial advantage.

RNMS Inc helps businesses protect, commercialise and enforce the intellectual property behind their brands, content and products.

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About RNMS Inc

A specialist commercial IP firm with depth, focus and perspective.

RNMS Inc is a specialist commercial IP firm with a business-focused approach to intellectual property. The firm advises clients across industries on intellectual property matters linked to their brands, content and products.

Its work covers legal protection, commercial use and enforcement. Intellectual property affects market position, business growth and the value of what a business has built.

The firm has over two decades of commercial IP experience and recognised strength in sectors where intellectual property is especially commercially significant. RNMS Inc is ranked by Chambers and Partners as one of South Africa's leading specialist IP firms.

Chambers & Partners Ranked — South Africa

Pan-Africa

Entering and growing
in African markets

RNMS Inc advises international businesses, multinationals and foreign rights holders on the intellectual property issues that arise when entering African markets, including brand and product protection across new jurisdictions, cross-border portfolio management, regional enforcement and Pan-African commercialisation.

Our Services

Specialist IP services tailored to your business.

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Protection

Trademark searches, filing and prosecution across African jurisdictions, copyright registration, portfolio management and strategic IP protection advice.

Commercialisation

Licensing arrangements, IP financing and securitisation, offshore IP structuring, exchange control approvals, due diligence investigations and commercialisation transactions.

Enforcement

Trademark infringement, passing-off, copyright enforcement and related disputes — defending and enforcing IP rights across the African continent.

Market Entry & Expansion

Protecting brands, content and products as they move into new jurisdictions, managing cross-border IP portfolios and Pan-African commercialisation.

Data Privacy

Data privacy and protection compliance, including POPIA, policy drafting, cross-border data transfers — complementing the commercial IP practice.

Franchising

IP aspects of franchising including trademark protection, licensing, franchise agreement drafting and managing IP across domestic and cross-border franchise networks.

IP & AI / Technology

IP ownership in AI-generated content, protecting technology-linked brands, commercialising technology-based IP and managing IP risk as businesses adopt AI tools.

Rachel Sikwane, Founder of RNMS Inc

Founder

Rachel Sikwane

Founder and Commercial IP Lawyer.

Rachel Sikwane is a commercial lawyer with over two decades' experience advising clients on intellectual property matters linked to their brands, content and products — across contentious and non-contentious matters, with particular depth in commercialisation and licensing, enforcement, IP due diligence, and content production and commercialisation.

She has advised local and international clients ranging from start-ups and established businesses to multinationals, film production companies and government departments.

Chambers & Partners Ranked Best Lawyers™ IP Law since 2022 Certified Licensing Professional™

Our Experience

Trusted advice.
Proven impact.

Telecoms & Fintech
IP Due Diligence
Publishing &
Copyright Advisory
Trade Mark Portfolio
Management
Software &
Copyright Disputes
Film & Television
Transactions
Cross-Border IP
Structuring

Sectors

Recognised strength
across key industries.

RNMS Inc advises clients across industries. The firm has recognised strength in sectors where intellectual property is especially closely tied to commercial value and market position.

Technology

Telecoms

Publishing

Media & Entertainment

Retail

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