Library - Legal Updates
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- Trade mark dilution: you can’t laugh it off - September 2004
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 | Category: Trade Marks | Posted: 30/09/2004
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- Internet domain name scam - September 2004
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 | Category: Trade Marks | Posted: 30/09/2004
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- Albex v. All Blax : the battle of the bleaches
Albez is a well known registered trade mark for household bleach in South Africa.
- Download PDF | Category: Trade Marks | Posted: 01/02/2004
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- How much taste can one publisher have?
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 | Category: Trade Marks | Posted: 01/12/2003
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- Grey goods: what are they and can they be imported legally? – August 2002
News items on legal topics in the areas of intellectual property and trade frequently refer to the importation of “grey goods”.
- Download PDF | Category: Trade Marks | Posted: 30/08/2002
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- Competition legislation and intellectual property rights – August 2002
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 | Category: Trade Marks | Posted: 30/08/2002
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- Intellectual property rights vis-à-vis competition law principles – February 2002
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 | Category: Trade Marks | Posted: 28/02/2002
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- Ambush marketing to be prohibited
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 | Category: Trade Marks | Posted: 01/02/2002
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- Protection of technology branding – July 2001
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 | Category: Trade Marks | Posted: 31/07/2001
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- Trading in cyberspace: domain names vis-à-vis trade marks - March 2000
"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 | Category: Trade Marks | Posted: 31/03/2000