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A dispute concerning the intellectual property rights underlying The Braai Jack has sparked recent controversy.

Recently one of the leading producers of soy sauce, the Kikkoman Corporation, was finally able to have its soy sauce dispenser bottle registered as a 3-D trade mark in Japan.

Intellectual property assets are vital for creating shareholder/stakeholder value and can oftentimes be more valuable to a business than tangible assets. Intellectual property value will vary from business to business.

A recent furore about apples and pears raises a number of familiar themes: the scope of trade mark rights; trade mark overreach; trade mark bullying..

This right falls under the umbrella of intellectual property rights and can therefore be commercially exploited as such.

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...

The Kit Kat shape saga goes on and on. A few months back we reported on how the Advocate General ("AG") of the EU had written an opinion on the issue of an opposition by Cadbury (now Mondelez) to Nestle's application to register the four-fingered shape of its Kit Kat chocolate bar as a UK trade mark .

Often in this day and age we spend so much time checking, double checking and then triple checking everything that we intend to post on social media.

In the past months, I have started really paying attention to every billboard I come across.

Manolo Blahnik has conquered a 22-Year long trademark battle in China against a Chinese businessman Fang Yuzhou ("Yuzhou"), who registered the trademark "Manolo & Blahnik" in the footwear category.

The Monster Beverage Corporation's continued trademark battles against various other brands highlight the importance of selecting a distinctive and unique mark when selecting a trademark.

From 28 to 30 May 2024 a national workshop on the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS), organised by the World Trade Organisation...

Since the start of cross-border trade, various treaties have been entered into to provide protection of a brand holder which is similar to that of the nationals of a foreign nation ...

Unlike any other facet of intellectual property, registered trade marks afford protection against infringing third parties in perpetuity (provided that the registered mark is renewed every 10 years).

The South African Supreme Court of Appeal handed down a number of trade mark judgments late last year.

As you may have heard in the news, five children were recently reported to have tragically died in Soweto, after allegedly eating poisoned snacks, purchased at a spaza shop.

Taylor Swift is a music icon, but you already know that. What you perhaps don't know is that there is a business called The Folklore (established in 2018) that helps African clothing designers access international markets.