The rise of counterfeit consumables has increased exponentially over the past few years across the African Continent. A cause for major concern as many of these cases end in a fatality…

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has plunged the world into an unprecedented global crisis, as nations grapple to reign in the spread...

On 16 June 2020, President Cyril Ramaphosa referred the proposed Copyright and Performers' Protection Amendment Bills back to the National Assembly for re-consideration.

A patent strategy is vitally important to any business and a balance needs to be found between being cost effective and obtaining the most protection possible.

Counterfeit is an ongoing problem but never more prevalent than during the festive season. And, with our struggling economy, we expect to feel it even more this year.

Counterfeit is an ongoing problem but never more prevalent than during the festive season. And, with our struggling economy, we expect to feel it even more this year.

Following your search, you locate an engineering draughtsman with the requisite skills that is willing to prepare technical drawings and build the prototype.

In recent times the international political arena has been fraught with alleged intellectual property violations – Eminem successfully sued the New Zealand National Party for infringing the copyright in his hit track "Lose Yourself".

The digital era has brought about several advancements in everyday life.

If you have been following the article series, and have determined that you are the responsible party in terms of the first condition of POPIA, the next step is to assess your compliance...

Micro-organisms, although the subject matter of patent applications from as early as 1873 internationally, are fast becoming a focus area in South African local patent practice.

When a person or business creates a new technical concept (or innovation) that is implemented, the world generally benefits from such innovation.

Each country is governed by its own laws regarding Intellectual Property, including trade mark registrations.

As we are all too well aware, the sporting world has not outrun the COVID-19 pandemic. Weekends usually spent immersed in live sporting action are now occupied with replays of iconic sporting moments.

Please note that this article speaks to an action for the infringement of a patent which is to follow the application for an interdict and not to the application for an interdict itself.

Determining inventorship is often fraught with peril because all researchers working on a research project desire to be recognized as an inventor in the event that patent applications are filed.

South Africa, being blessed with an abundance in natural resources, naturally, sees its fair share of patent applications directed towards a process or apparatus for producing a product.

In the age of the Internet and digital media it is possible to find information on absolutely any topic, at the click of a mouse.

A soliloquy in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet once posed a vitally important question which can be applied when weighing up the importance of a name and trade mark.

It is a beautiful Monday morning and you are on your way to work.