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A recent (and rare) trademark judgment was handed down on 30 January 2024. The case, Intercontinental Great Brands LLC v Zayaan Investments Limited, involved opposition by IGBL, which holds the trademark OREO, to the trademark MOREO’S, on the basis that they are confusing..
The Ghanaian authorities have published an important bill, the Ghana Industrial Property Office Bill, 2023 (the Bill).
The purpose of the Bill is to establish a new IP office, the Ghana Industrial Property Office (GHIPO).
Zambian trade mark law is being modernised and draft new legislation has been published. This is long overdue – the present legislation, the Trade Marks Act Chapter 401 (the TMA), dates all the way back to 1958. But for now the TMA continues to apply.
Kenya has specific anti-counterfeiting legislation, the Anti-Counterfeiting Act No. 13 of 2008, as well as a dedicated anti-counterfeiting body, the Anti-Counterfeiting Authority (ACA)...
Zambia has published the Trade Marks Bill 2022 (‘the Bill’) that will, when passed, fundamentally change Zambian trade mark law. It should be noted that it is unclear what stage this bill has reached in parliament.
As anyone who has filed trade mark..
Death and taxes are inevitable, but how do intangible assets such as trade marks, copyrights and other forms of intellectual property and their related income streams, transfer to heirs in a deceased person’s estate?
In 2019 the Mauritian authorities published new IP legislation, the Industrial Property Act 2019. It has now been announced that the legislation is anticipated to come into force in February 2022.
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Constituting a world first in a field that has traditionally been hostile to “artificially intelligent” inventors, South Africa’s patent office granted a patent in July 2021 to an invention created by an AI system.
The invention that received the go-ahead is for a ..
Intellectual property (IP) is not an end in itself. Nobody ever needed IP to make, market or sell a product or service and, in fact, many businesses compete in the market on the basis of price, service and quality without ever registering or enforcing any intellectu..
