Dorothy’s areas of practice include searches for trademarks, the filing and processing of applications for their registration, the renewal of existing trade mark registrations (and patent registrations in Zimbabwe), the recordal of the transfer (assignment) of trademark registrations and patents, the recordal of the appointment of registered users, the recordal of changes of name and/or address of a trademark owner, and providing general advice relating to trademarks, patents, industrial designs and copyright primarily in Zimbabwe but also with reference to ARIPO, which covers the external countries of Mozambique, Botswana, Zambia, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Namibia, Swaziland, Tanzania and several other African countries.