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DM Kisch supported the drive for 16 Days of Activism against Women and Child Abuse.
When judgment was handed down in Adcock Ingram Intellectual Property (Pty) Ltd & Adcock Ingram Healthcare (Pty) Ltd (the Opponents) v Actor Holdings (Pty) Ltd (the Trade Mark Applicant) 2013 on 23...
There have been some interesting decisions in the UK of late on the related, but not identical, issues of character merchandising and product endorsement. The recent case of Betty Boop was one of char...
Plenty, if you’re a wine maker.Stellenbosch wine estate, Dombeya, was recently threatened with legal action by Distell Group Limited for using the name ALTUS on the label of one of its red wines. Dis...
The much-debated Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Act 2007 - generally referred to as the Traditional Knowledge (TK) legislation - is now in force. It’s been controversial to put it mildly. Altho...
On 26 November 2013, the Protection of Personal Information Act (“POPI”) was passed into law. The effective date of POPI has not yet been proclaimed. POPI will have a dramatic impact on most businesse...
In a recent article entitled ‘Why TMs may be your biggest global sales and marketing risk’, US author Ed Marsh says that most businesses considering expansion concentrate on transactional and business...
The recent decision of the Gauteng High Court in the case of Premier Soccer League (PSL) v Gidani, a judgment of Judge Kgomo dated 28 February 2014, is fascinating. The issue was whether Gidani, the...
The good, the bad and the uglySouth Africa does not (yet) have a formalised policy framework regarding intellectual property (IP) to guide different government departments in their approaches to IP. I...
The City of Cape Town together with the International Trademark Association (INTA), the South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law (SAIIPL) and Government hosted a round table on February 13...
