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ENVIRONMENTAL & SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES For Mandela Day this year, we stayed true to the theme to 'Do what you can, with what you have, where you are'. KISCH IP volunteers teamed up and split into...
ENVIRONMENTAL & SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES KISCH IP hosted its first ever Take a Girl Child to Work event on 20 June 2019 with a total of 10 girls spending the day at our firm. The day began with a we...
ENVIRONMENTAL & SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES KISCH IP is proud to assist the Missio Deo School in Ficksburg in several much needed ways. Our ongoing commitment has seen members of the firm help in upgra...
ENVIRONMENTAL & SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES In order to continually improve the quality of our services, we have implemented a formal internal training and skills development programme to train, educat...
ENVIRONMENTAL & SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES KISCH IP set out to raise funds to help the Hartebeespoort Animal Welfare Society (HAWS).HAWS provides welfare services for abandoned, neglected and abused p...
ENVIRONMENTAL & SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES The Rhodes 52km Trail Run was founded amongst others by the practice’s Reinard le Roux, our former Chairman, and is held annually in July in extreme weather...
AI EVERYWHERE, AND HOW AN OVERLOOKED SOUTH AFRICAN LAW CAN AFFECT YOUR COPYRIGHT OWNERSHIP It is no secret that AI is everywhere these days. It’s certainly all over the news, although the smart phone...
Humans love sport - this is an inescapable, universal truth that permeates through generations, with online viewing platforms leaving few around the world without access to some form of sporting enter...
Rights in the trade dress used by a business to market its products or services are generally recognized and enforceable by South African courts on three separate and independent grounds, namely at co...
The BIG MAC is arguably the world’s most famous burger. This illustrious burger has even traversed the realm of fast-food and entered the financial services world in the form of the “Big Mac Index” cr...
There are new Regulations Regarding the Labelling and Advertising of Foodstuffs on the horizon. On 21 April 2023, the Minister published R3337 – the new draft regulations under the Food Cosmetics and...
Many individuals and organisations often fall victim to copyright being “stolen” by third parties with whom they would have entrusted their work without much thought on the implications of their discl...
HOW TO PATENT AN IDEA IN SOUTH AFRICA IN THREE PARTS: PART THREE In this series, we’re covering what to expect when you meet with a patent attorney for the first time. In Part 1 you would have wowed...
COPYRIGHT IN AI-GENERATED WORKS AI platforms such as ChatGPT have become very popular lately, raising certain concerns about related intellectual property rights, especially regarding ownership of co...
UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL LAW IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION IN SOUTH AFRICA Intellectual property (IP) is a vital asset of any business, and South Africa recognizes the...
In this series, we’re covering what to expect when you meet with a patent attorney for the first time. By this point, you would have wowed them with your new idea, and they would have introduced you t...
The legal industry has traditionally been male-dominated, with few women holding leadership positions. However, in recent years, there has been a growing recognition of the importance of diversity and...
Intellectual property (IP) is a vital tool for empowering women in business and creativity. The percentage of female inventors named in patent applications, and female applicants named in trade mark...
When you have a big, important idea, one of your first thoughts should be how to protect it. This is where attorneys who specialise in Intellectual Property come into the picture. If your idea is tech...
For startups, the most valuable assets are often those which are invisible. Intellectual Property (IP) rights are immensely important for startups as these rights grant their holder exclusive right to...
The case of LOUIS VUITTON in the European General Court The essential function of a trade mark is to guarantee the identity of origin of the marked goods or services to the consumer by enabling them,...
The Government of Mauritius deposited its instrument of accession to the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) on 15 December 2022, making it the 157th member state of the PCT union. The treaty will enter...
Many jurisdictions offer a government incentive for obtaining a granted patent. Therefore, South Africa, by virtue of not officially performing substantive examination of patent applications is curren...
