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Who is David Junior Ngcobo? Most people probably wouldn’t know. But if you ask “who is Nasty C?”, most people in South Africa who are below retirement age will know exactly who you’re talking about.

In a recent decision, the Cabinet of Ministers approved Seychelles’ membership to the African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) through the accession of Seychelles to the Harare protocol.  The Harare protocol provides for the protection of Patents, Industrial D

A Sunday service like no other is the order of the day; a new popular pop-up church experience hosted by the controversial hip-hop music mogul Kanye West has taken the world and recently the US Patent and Trade Marks Office (USPTO) by storm.  West’s ‘Sunday Service’ is a m

Challenging times foster innovative solutions and when times are tough we, companies and individuals alike, tend to hunker down and start innovating. 

At its iPhone 11 Pro unveiling, Apple showed off the new slow-motion selfies feature to the iPhone 11 models – or as Apple jokingly referred to them as “Slofies”.

The digital era has brought about several advancements in everyday life. One of the most notable of these is the advancement in the field of technology which has changed the way businesses communicate with consumers.

Clients often enquire about the necessity of an intellectual property (IP) valuation as opposed to a standard accounting valuation.

We all know of the high-end jewellery brands being counterfeited across the world with hundreds of thousands of counterfeit jewellery items being seized in markets in, and at, the borders of most countries.

Intellectual property holding companies (IPHCo’s) are registered with the purpose of managing and holding a business or group’s intellectual property assets such as patents, trade marks, designs, copyright, trade s