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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 | Category: Trade Marks | Posted: October 15, 2008
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- Merchandise Marks Act 17 of 1941
To make provision concerning the marking of merchandise and of coverings in or with which merchandise is sold and the use of certain words and emblems in connection with business.
- Download PDF | Category: Trade Marks | Posted: October 19, 2007
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- Trade Marks Act 194 of 1993
To provide for the registration of trade marks, certification trade marks and collective trade marks; and to provide for incidental matters.
- Download PDF | Category: Trade Marks | Posted: October 19, 2007
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- Commentaries on Counterfeit Goods Act
The Counterfeit Goods Act no. 37 of 1997 enables the owner of an “intellectual property right” or any other person with an interest in goods bearing or embodying such rights ("the protected goods") to act speedily and effectively against persons involved in counterfeiting activity, on both a criminal and a civil basis.
- Download PDF | Category: Trade Marks | Posted: October 19, 2007
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- Counterfeit Goods Act no. 37 of 1997
To introduce measures aimed against the trade in counterfeit goods so as to further protect owners of trade marks, copyright and certain marks under the Merchandise Marks Act, 1941, against the unlawful application, to goods, of the subject matter of their respective intellectual property rights and against the release of goods of that nature (called “counterfeit goods”) into the channels of commerce.
- Download PDF | Category: Trade Marks | Posted: October 19, 2007
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- Franchising
Franchising is a business model which has proved to be successful and is enjoying increasing popularity throughout the world
- Download PDF | Category: Corporate Law | Posted: October 18, 2007
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- Trade mark regulations
Department of Trade and Industry: Notice no. R578, Government Gazette no. 16373 of 21 April 1995
- Download PDF | Category: Trade Marks | Posted: October 18, 2007
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- Trade marks: an asset worth protecting
Intellectual property, although intangible, is a valuable asset on the balance sheet of any business - in many cases exceeding in actual marketable value the fixed property of the business.
- Download PDF | Category: Trade Marks | Posted: July 1, 2007
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- Active in Africa update - December 2006
This brief synopsis, dealing in the main with developments on the trade mark law front in Africa, should serve to illustrate that many of the hitherto underdeveloped countries are attempting to make improvements on a legislative front to bring themselves in line with more progressive developing nations and, in due course, the Paris Convention and TRIPS.
- Download PDF | Category: Trade Marks | Posted: December 29, 2006
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- Anti-counterfeiting
A brochure on anti-counterfeiting.
- Download PDF | Category: Trade Marks | Posted: September 1, 2006