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Mauritius attracts many entities wanting to set up shop on their tropical island. With this foreign investment, it is important to consider the implications on brand enforcement and on its trading partners, namely South Africa and the rest of Africa.

It is only natural and prudent to want to protect a personal brand by acquiring a trade mark, but there is a common misconception that using or registering a personal name or full names as a trade mark is an absolute right.

Social media platforms Instagram, Facebook and TikTok have provided a (sometimes dangerously) easy way for wannabe celebrities to get themselves into the public eye.

We conducted this search at the South African Trade Marks Office making use of the Registrar of Trade Marks’ data base which includes all trade marks applications and registrations in force in South Africa.

It has recently been announced that the Napa Valley has been granted geographical indicator ("GI") status by the People’s Republic of China, making it the first wine region outside China to be granted this recognition.

Unilever South Africa, the South African licensee of the well-known OLA ice-cream brand, acquired the rights in the MILKY LANE franchise business and trade marks owned by Pleasure Foods in 2003.

There was a residential housing development called Fairhaven that belonged to a bank. An estate agent thought that it would be a good idea to register various co.za domain names incorporating the name Fairhaven...

Europe’s highest court recently gave a decision in a trade mark case that deals with the technical, yet highly important, issue of trade mark classifications and class headings.

Carling CupOn Saturday 30 July Kaizer Chiefs played Orlando Pirates for the Carling Black Label Cup.

Leon Trotsky is supposed to have said "you may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.". This may or may not be true in war, but it is certainly true in law.

At the 2013 international trade mark conference, there was an interesting discussion about something a little less extreme, how a number of major international companies seem to be ditching their brand names and simply using their logos to identify and distinguish their products.

A discussion on what amounts to a parallel import, and the implications for such importers.

A discussion relating to a case where Pepkor was accused of infringing Adidas's three-stripe trade mark registrations by selling four-stripe trainers.

Once a new invention has come to life, its protection may often be a daunting task, especially to novice inventors and entrepreneurs. There are some simple steps,

Adcock manufactures, markets and supplies a medicine called URIZONE under license from an Italian company called Zambon S.P.A. URIZONE is a broad-spectrum...

In our previous article we established the monetary value and financial leverage available for business owners, more specifically registered brand owners, through the hypotec/pledging route...

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet." William Shakespeare used this line in his play Romeo and Juliet to convey that the naming of things is irrelevant...