The Companies and Intellectual Property Commission has begun its rollout of an electronic filing (e-filing) system for the lodgement of trademark, patent, registered design and Copyright in cineomatographic film applications.

The Copyright Act provides for general exceptions to the protection of literary and musical works to allow for fair dealings with the works.

India’s Supreme Court does not allow cancer drug, Glivec, patent protection.

The TAC (Treatment Action Campaign) has again this week lashed out at South African patent law saying that patented medicines are too expensive.

The drafting of a patent specification is a specialised task conducted by a specialist attorney: a patent attorney.

The duration of copyright is literary or musical works or artistic works is for the life of the author and fifty years from the end of the year in which the author dies.

Talk is cheap but the liberty to create a social media account and surf the internet is not a universal license to contribute to or escalate reputational or physical harm.