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Ideas, expressions, and virtual battlefields: Understanding IP boundaries in VR game cloning

23 October 2025 The recent popular release of Battlefield 6 has coincided with the release of the beta for Forefront VR, which itself is set...

Border Control, Brand Strategy: Recordation as ...

7 October 2025 Africa’s trade landscape is shifting. Governments are introducing new requirements...

Important Update for Goods Imported into Tanzania

23 September 2025 The enforcement and customs landscape in Africa have encountered a significant ...

Competition law implications of pay-for-delay a...

5 August 2025 The interplay between competition law and intellectual property law has garnered gr...

Ethiopia makes its entrance on the internationa...

30 July 2025 Ethiopia has officially acceded to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Indust...

Uganda: permanent removal of expired trade mark...

16 July 2025 The Ugandan Registration Services Bureau (URSB) published a notice on 27 June 2025, ...

South Africa Ushers in New Plant Breeders’ Righ...

19 June 2025 The long-anticipated Plant Breeders’ Rights Act 12 of 2018 (“the new Act”) has offic...

Do exclusive grant-back provisions in patent li...

5 June 2025 Patent licenses are agreements in which the patent holder (licensor) grants specific ...

IP Infringement in XR – a practical case study ...

4 April 2025 In the third part of this series, we are jumping straight into a practical case stud...

The often surprising interplay between advertis...

19 March 2025 The Advertising Regulatory Board South Africa’s Advertising Regulatory Board (ARB) ...

Kenya's Cabinet greenlights the path towards a ...

13 March 2025 On Tuesday, January 21, 2025, President William Ruto led a Cabinet meeting at the K...

USING XR TO COMMERCIALISE YOUR IP AND REACH NEW...

7 March 2025 In the second part of this series, we are briefly going to look at how Extended Real...

Compulsory licences as a defence to copyright i...

20 March 2025 Copyright protection affords owners an exclusive right to exploit works, or licence...