The 63rd General Assembly of the Member States of WIPO took place at the WIPO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland in July.

Lesotho played host to this year's annual Session of the ARIPO Administrative Council, which took place from 28 October 2024 to 1 November 2024. The Session was officially opened by the Minister of Law.

During the first wave of infections in South Africa, there were several allegations of negligence in various institutions leading to "mass infections"...

It has been officially announced that numerous sections of the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (POPIA) will commence on 1 July 2020.

The Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies has announced that South Africa intends to launch Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institute, in partnership with the University of Johannesburg ("UJ") and Tshwane University of Technology ("TUT").

The Patent Office in Sudan has re-opened and is, once again, accepting new domestic patent applications.

Mainland Tanzania has introduced a compulsory trade mark recordal regime that affects all trade marked goods imported into the country...

In November 2018, Yimei Hotel Management (Shenzhen) Limited ("the Applicant") applied to register trade mark no. ZN/S/2018/461 as a service mark in class 43.

What previously took between 10 to 15 business working days to register a company in Uganda, has now been reduced to 3 hours.

The Adams County Commissioners recently denied a land-use permit for the proposed Front Range Pipeline, which is a 435 mile natural gas-liquids pipeline between Colorado and Texas.

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.

For many South Africans, owning a property has become more than a distant dream. Instead, it is fast becoming a viable option to swap the renting space for owning property.

The only president of the United States to be elected by the House of Representatives under the 12th Amendment is John Quincy Adams.

Research continues to show that diverse companies perform better, attract and retain talent, and are more resilient. Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) allow for broader...

South Africa has a very active, and deeply rooted, chemical, metallurgical and process engineering industry that continues to contribute significantly to the country's GDP.

It sometimes happens that a seller in a property transaction enters into a conditional agreement of sale with a purchaser and before the fulfilment of those conditions the seller wishes to accept

On 26 and 27 July, the second meeting of the ARIPO ad hoc sub-working group on geographical indications (GIs) took place in Harare, Zimbabwe.

The global Covid-19 pandemic could not have come at a worse time for the African travel and tourism industry.

On 21 September 2026, the Department of Small Business Development issued an RFQ, calling on legal experts to tender in support of the creation of a framework for the recognition, protection and regulated participation of indigenous cannabis growers in South Africa.

"Intellectual Property (IP) intensive industries such as South Africa's growing technology sector face various challenges with respect to cross-border transactions, including access to offshore