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Recollections may vary, but everyone knows the story well enough. A seemingly embittered Harry and Meghan end their long silence...

South Africa is a constitutional democracy, which means that it is a country which observes human rights principles and is governed by the rule of law.

Every now and then, a dispute comes along that adds an extraordinary amount to the law. One such dispute is the Clearvu trade mark case.

A recent South African court ruling dealing with one company's use of another's trade mark on an aggregator website has attracted some interest.

Artificial intelligence ("AI") is big news at the moment, so it's no surprise that lawyers are considering the IP issues relating to AI. Some of the implications are really quite profound.

The British & Irish Lions have arrived in South Africa! However, they touched down amid the country's third, and seemingly worst, wave of Covid-19 infections.

There's an interesting trade mark case brewing in Australia, one that has some useful trade mark lessons.

In 2014, a South African court convicted Paralympian Oscar Pistorius of culpable homicide (manslaughter), following the shooting of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, and he was given...

Are the two trade marks confusingly similar? It's the question that's most commonly asked in trade mark law.

In the rush of today's global commerce, a trade mark is the passport that lets a brand cross borders with confidence. It is the single image, word, or sound that whispers "trust" in a customer's ear...

The 2017 edition of the annual Brand Finance Global 500 report on the world's most valuable brands was recently released.

Recent reports in the publication World Trademark Review ("WTR") tell us what we probably could have anticipated.

Celebrities have done a great deal to increase awareness of intellectual property ("IP"). The reason for this is simple: celebrities make significant use of IP ...

Dave Hutchison, founder and owner of local sock company Sexy Socks South Africa, has after a lot of hard work and effort, established a niche brand in the footwear market in South Africa.

Apparently, a number of major jurisdictions' trade mark filings have been up this year. This is, of course, counter-intuitive, given that so many business-related figures are down.

Counterfeiters...we all know what they're like! Nasty sorts who knowingly deceive and rip-off consumers,...

An appeal by the Foschini Group, the proprietor in South Africa of the trade mark DUE SOUTH in various classes, to overturn a decision by the Registrar of Trade Marks to accept applications by Jan Frederick Coetzee for registration of the trade mark DUE-SOUTH & DEVICE in classes 16, 29, 30 and 41 was recently dismissed by the North Gauteng High Court.