Category: News

A Game of Monopolies – Inconsistencies in the U...

Patents and Pharmaceuticals – the combination of these words often invokes visions of companies e...

Two Bright Luminaries of African Brand IP Law

4 November 2024 Christine Strutt and Claire Smedley featured in the CIO Views Women’s Month issue...

Revisiting the protection of well-known trade m...

4 October 2024 In recent years, we have seen the courts take differing approaches to the protecti...

Libyan Trade Marks Office starts accepting trad...

1 October 2024 As previously reported here, the Libyan government has recently been taking steps ...

Queue the boss music – Nintendo and The Pokémon...

30 September 2024 On 19 September 2024, Nintendo published a notice on their website that they, t...

New Intellectual Property Law enacted in Rwanda

19 August 2024 A new Intellectual Property Law has come into force in Rwanda, which sees a positi...

Zambia finally promulgates a new Trade Marks Act

12 February 2024 The Patents and Companies Registration Agency (PACRA), which is a statutory body...

Libyan Trade Marks Office issues new regulation...

Despite continuing conflict in Libya, the government is finally taking some steps to ensure prope...

Export of intellectual property assets by South...

11 December 2023 A common theme when dealing with transactional intellectual property (“IP”) matt...

Kenya: Look no further than the Copyright Act t...

7 December 2023 While a 3D trade mark registration of labels and/or packaging used in relation to...

Shoprite Checkers vs Pick n Pay: A whole herd o...

18 November 2023 Typically, in the context of fast moving consumer goods, passing-off judgements ...

Registration of trade mark vs company name: Add...

9 October 2023 It is not uncommon to find a registered trade mark also registered as a company/bu...