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A new Trade Marks Act has been passed in Zambia! This signals a significant modernization effort, introducing provisions for "non-traditional" marks, multiclass applications...

On 26 December 2025, the Trade Marks Act No. 11 of 2023 came into operation, replacing the outdated 1958 Act, which is more than 60 years old.

Patents & Companies Registration Agency (PACRA) issued a public notice of 23 August 2022, announcing that effective from 1 September 2022, the Zambian Registry will only issue electronic trade mark registration certificates.

In a recent decision of the Registrar of Trade Marks in Zambia in the matter of Sigma-Tau Industrie Farmaceutiche Riunite and Amina Limited, the Registrar held that international registrations under the Madrid Protocol ...

On 25 December 2018, the Zambian Industrial Property Office issued a legal notice regarding the application of the Property Transfer Tax (Amendment) Act, 2017 on trade marks, patents and Industrial designs.

The new Zambian Trade Marks Act, which provides a welcome modernisation of Zambia's IP system is now operational.

On 31 December 2025, Zambia ushered in a new era for trade mark protection with the enactment of Trade Marks Act No. 11 of 2023 (the Act), following the signing of Statutory Instrument No. 86 of 2025.

The enforceability of International Registrations in Zambia- Trade Marks Rights Not Getting ‘Beta'?

Zambia has steered in a new era of trade mark protection with the Trade Marks Act No. 11 of 2023, which became operational on 26 December 2025.

Although the use of trademarks, as a means to distinguish the goods of merchants and manufacturers, dates back to antiquity, the emergence of service marks is significantly more recent.

The Supreme Court of Zambia has recently handed down a judgment in favour of LA Group (Pty) Ltd, in a matter that commenced in 2013. Before reaching the Supreme Court of Zambia...

Zambia has achieved a long-awaited milestone in its intellectual property regime. Following the signing of Statutory Instrument No. 86 of 2025, the Trademarks Act No. 11 of 2023 officially came into operation on December 26, 2025.

Are biscuits and confections similar to nutritional supplements in liquid form? This was the question that the Zambian Trade Marks Registry had to deal with the recent case of Swiss...

Zambia is a signatory to several international and regional treaties, conventions and instruments.

Last year, Zambia passed the Trade Marks Bill 2023 in an effort to revise its archaic trade mark legislation prescribed by the Trade Marks Act (Chapter 401) 1958 ("the Old Act").

The coming into operation of Zambia's Trade Marks Act No. 11 of 2023 on 26 December 2025 marks a significant shift not only in trade mark registration practice...