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Understanding trade secrets is fundamental to protect IP but it is also essential to innovation on a global scale.

Interview on SABC's Network Show: Marco discusses what legal recourse consumers have in the case where their data privacy has been compromised.

"Dinner at Somizi's" is the story that's gripped the nation with all the elements of a classic drama: celebrity, intrigue, double crossing and that vital cog for any narrative – intellectual property law.

The South African Government has just put out an urgent call for proposals ("CFP") for the design, development, production, and procurement of ventilators, as part of the local effort to combat the Covid-19 pandemic.

Spurred by the rapid growth of technology, many businesses have come up with inventions aimed at giving them a competitive edge. With these inventions comes the risk of having commercially

AI tools represent a significant opportunity to protect, manage, and create value in know-how which traditionally has not been recorded in meetings. However, such use also raises serious concerns...

The term "unlawful competition" is broad and encompasses a range of unfair business practices. Claims for damages arising out of unlawful competition are often brought together with claims...

Trade secrets play an important, yet somewhat surprisingly low key, role in intellectual property (IP) law. In this article, we discuss a recent trade secrets case in China.

In the rapidly evolving world of e-commerce and fast fashion, intellectual property ("IP") rights have become a battleground where industry giants fight for dominance.

Most businesses make use of some form on trade secret/s in their daily operations.

On 21 November 2024, the High Court of Uganda delivered a key judgment addressing various issues in intellectual property law. The case involved a copyright dispute between Knight Frank Uganda Limited...

88% of the respondents in the Savile Row Workplace survey published in October 2020 would prefer to either work from home or a combination of both.

In many of our past articles, we have focused on traditional aspects of intellectual property ("IP"), such as the creation, acquisition, and enforcement of rights.

It is no secret that trade secrets are very valuable intellectual property on which a business empire can be built. Simply look at KFC's classified blend of eleven herbs and spices...

Judge Sher of the Western Cape Division of the Supreme Court recently handed down a judgment dealing with unlawful competition and copyright infringement...

There was a fascinating article in the IPKat blog about the AI programme AlphaFold recently. So, what is this all about...

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

Trade secrets fall within the scope of intellectual property ("IP") law. Trod Lehong, a South African patent attorney who is the Head of the Legislative, Policy and Technology Advice Section at the World Intellectual Property Organisation ("WIPO")

Recently, South Africa obtained notoriety in its patent office being the first in the world to grant a patent in which an artificial intelligence (AI) is identified as the inventor (the South African Patent).