South Africa’s “Much Improved” Copyright Amendment Bill Tabled in Parliament.
Amending the Copyright Act has long been on the horizon of South Africa's legal reform agenda and through the collective effort of...
INTA Update: Breakfast Discussion on Hot Topics in Africa
Barcelona 2017: Maura Canavan of Rouse Africa moderated an interesting and lively discussion on hot IP topics in Africa yesterday...
INTA comes to Africa!
"if the mountain won't come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain" This year the International Trade Mark Association (INTA) will...
African Mobile Phone Brand Mi-Fone Uses Trade Mark to Stop the Sale of Xiaomi's Mi 4 in Nigeria.
In November 2015 Xiaomi, the third largest smartphone brand in the world, announced their plans to sell their flagship smartphones in...
MTN Ripping Off Composers Royally ?
The Composers, Authors and Publishers Association (CAPASSO) has recently alleged that mobile network provider MTN owes almost R1 million...
Validity of Selection Patents in South Africa
In a recent decision by the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa, the court looked at the requirements of disclosure for the purpose...
South African court sets royalty rates for playing copyrighted music in retail outlets
South African court sets royalty rates for playing copyrighted music in retail outlets: In a case decided in November 2015 in the South...
Are African copyright laws primed to deal with the growth of advertising and media in the digital sp
PWC has recently released its report on the entertainment and media outlook for 2015 through to 2019 for South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya....
Africa performs in the Global Innovation Index
Further to our blog post about AT Kearney’s African Retail Development Index (ARDI) report (which can be accessed here), we are happy to...
Revisiting the similarity between perfume and clothing
Determining the similarity between goods in different classes has become a confused area of South African law recently, with a number of...
