Newsletters
 Africa Update February 2012 |
| Download PDF | 2/02/2012 |
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Client Update - November 2010 Adams & Adams client newsletter - November 2010 |
| 23/11/2011 |
 Adams & Adams client newsletter (Intellectual property and general, commercial attorneys). |
| Download PDF | 14/11/2007 | Posted in: Intellectual Property |
 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 | 29/12/2006 | Posted in: Trade Marks and Intellectual Property |
 Amendments – enactment of Merchandise Marks Regulations in terms of section 10 and 11 of the Merchandise Marks Act 17 of 1941 |
| Download PDF | 29/04/2005 | Posted in: Trade Marks and Intellectual Property |
 Clients in the footwear, clothing and accessory industries, take particular note. The Merchandise Marks Act (MMA) has been amended and regulations created in terms of sections 10 and 11, will in future regulate the way in which products imported into South Africa,are to be labelled. |
| Download PDF | 1/04/2005 | Posted in: Trade Marks and Intellectual Property |
 In the past, developments in Intellectual Property legislation and practice in Africa have been hamstrung by a lack of government commitment. The need to comply with the TRIPS Agreement has brought about changes in several countries across the continent and in this bulletin, we focus briefly on these and other changes and provide an overview on membership of the Madrid Protocol on the continent. |
| Download PDF | 30/06/2004 | Posted in: Trade Marks and Intellectual Property |
 Recent developments in the patent field, patents amendment bill, medicines: new legislative and regulatory framework for medicines, recent trade mark decisions, registration of colours, impact of abbreviations, wrongly issued registrations and certificates. |
| Download PDF | 31/05/2004 | Posted in: Intellectual Property and Patents |
 Adams & Adams holds the conviction that, from a growth strategy perspective and for achievement of transformation goals, a sustainable success rate can be achieved by a process of "homogeneous growth’', which includes focused and proactive recruitment, intensive and tailor-made internal training programmes, with personal mentoring and, providing young qualified practitioners with opportunities for specialisation and practice expansion in an enabling and supportive environment. |
| Download PDF | 28/05/2004 | Posted in: Intellectual Property and Patents |
 The specialised litigation unit in the General Law department of A&A dealing with personal injury claims has built up, over the past decade or more, an impressive record of successful claims against the Road Accident Fund. |
| Download PDF | 30/06/2003 | Posted in: Trade Marks and Intellectual Property |
 Two recent legislative amendments introduced measures to prohibit ambush marketing in South Africa, ie. intentional 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 | 30/06/2003 | Posted in: Trade Marks and Intellectual Property |
 A bolar-type provision has been incorporated in the South African Patents Act, 1978 as a new section 69A. |
| Download PDF | 30/04/2003 | Posted in: Intellectual Property and Patents |
 Adams & Adams has been top-rated for the last few years, both nationally and internationally. The firm did it again in surveys conducted during 2002. |
| Download PDF | 25/04/2003 | Posted in: Intellectual Property and Patents |
 Adams & Adams trade mark litigation partners. |
| Download PDF | 31/08/2001 | Posted in: Intellectual Property and Patents |
 Our litigation teams, A&A's expanding of its Johannesburg office, our African connection and A&A online. |
| Download PDF | 31/08/2001 | Posted in: Intellectual Property and Patents |
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The firm practises directly in several Southern African countries and through long-established associates in others.
