Legal Updates
 Élio Teixeira of Adams & Adams Mozambique contributed a chapter to Getting the Deal Through – Trademarks 2009 (online edition), edited by Joseph Nicholson and Stuart Sinder and reproduced here with permission from Law Business Research Ltd. |
| Download PDF | 18/06/2009 | Posted in: Trade Marks and Intellectual Property |
 A journal concerning the management of technology, copyrights and trade names. |
| Download PDF | 14/01/2009 | Posted in: Intellectual Property and Patents |
 Overview of the Consumer Protection Bill, 2008 The Consumer Protection Bill is intended to promote and advance the social and economic welfare of consumers in South Africa, essentially by protecting consumers’ rights against exploitation by business, and in the process empowering consumers. |
| Download PDF | 15/10/2008 | Posted in: Trade Marks and Intellectual Property |
 This Section is intended to protect proprietors of well-known trade marks against erosion and diminution of their rights through offending use by infringers but its full impact was not tested until 2003. |
| Download PDF | 30/09/2004 | Posted in: Trade Marks and Intellectual Property |
 It has recently come to our attention that several of our large South African clients have been approached by European businesses regarding the registration of domain names. |
| Download PDF | 30/09/2004 | Posted in: Trade Marks and Intellectual Property |
 Albez is a well known registered trade mark for household bleach in South Africa. |
| Download PDF | 1/02/2004 | Posted in: Trade Marks and Intellectual Property |
 When South African blue-chip retailer, Woolworths (Pty) Limited ("Woolworths"), announced in August 2003 the imminent September launch and publication of its magazine, Woolworths TASTE, it raised the hackles of the publishers of GOOD TASTE magazine |
| Download PDF | 1/12/2003 | Posted in: Trade Marks and Intellectual Property |
 News items on legal topics in the areas of intellectual property and trade frequently refer to the importation of “grey goods”. |
| Download PDF | 30/08/2002 | Posted in: Trade Marks and Intellectual Property |
 South Africa was given a new competition regime when the major part of the Competition Act no. 89 of 1998 was put into effect on 1 September 1999. Modelled on the British and Canadian laws, the Act applies to all economic activity within South Africa, including economic activity involving intellectual property rights. |
| Download PDF | 30/08/2002 | Posted in: Trade Marks and Intellectual Property |
 Intellectual property rights (IPRs) in South Africa, as in most other countries, are regulated by statutes, such as the Patents Act, 1978; the Trade Marks Act, 1993; the Copyright Act, 1978; the Designs Act, 1993. |
| Download PDF | 28/02/2002 | Posted in: Trade Marks and Intellectual Property |
 Two recent legislative amendments introduced measures to prohibit ambush marketing, ie. international conduct on the part of a person or company to obtain an unjustified promotional benefit from a sponsored event, such as sponsored sports or cultural events or other recreational activities. |
| Download PDF | 1/02/2002 | Posted in: Trade Marks and Intellectual Property |
 We are living, working and doing business in an environment where competitive supremacy has become essential to commercial survival. Strong brands play a decisive role in promoting product marketability and ensuring competitive advantage. |
| Download PDF | 31/07/2001 | Posted in: Trade Marks and Intellectual Property |
 "Cyberlaw" is a term coined to refer to the composite bundle of legal principles which find application when use is made of the so-called Global Information Infrastructure (GII) with its information superhighways, of which the Internet with its information highway to the World Wide Web forms a part. |
| Download PDF | 31/03/2000 | Posted in: Trade Marks and Intellectual Property |
 Inventing or designing a new product or device is only the first step on the road to commercialising the new creation. As part of the marketing phase, the produce or device should be allocated a distinctive name - which brings us to the area of trade mark law. Trade marks in South Africa are governed by the Trade Marks Act no. 94 of 1993, which came into force on 1 May 1995. |
| Download PDF | 28/01/2000 | Posted in: Trade Marks and Intellectual Property |
 Whenever you open a newspaper or a magazine, you are bombarded with articles singing the praises of the internet, the super highway. For the technophobiacs amongst us, terms such as the World Wide Web, websites, cyberspace, domain names and discussions about the opportunities of the internet as a business forum can be bewildering. |
| Download PDF | 30/11/1999 | Posted in: Intellectual Property and IT Law |
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