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As a general rule, the law lags behind technology.

"World Intellectual Property Day" is celebrated every year on 26 April – the day on which the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Convention came into force in 1970.

In the 1982 movie “Conan the Barbarian”, the title character is told by his father (a blacksmith) that he must learn “the riddle of steel”.

French luxury fashion house Chanel has failed in its latest attempt to block the registration of a trade mark applied for by Chinese technological giant Huawei Technologies.

Famous and exclusive fashion brand Valentino S.P.A.

The Patents Act 57 of 1978 of South Africa (“the South African Patents Act”) provides that, amongst other things, anything which consists of:

While the world was hunkering down in isolation, the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) was busy launching a service intended to revolutionise the administration and protection of intellectual property.

South African copyright legislation finds its roots in 1917 when the Legislative Assembly effectively enacted the British Imperial Copyright Act of 1911 as the Third Schedule to the Patents, Designs, Trade Marks and Copyright

A session of the National People’s Congress in China voted and passed a new law that came into effect on 1 January 2021.