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 Today, Friday, 8 August 2008, Adams & Adams celebrates its Centenary. Please download our centenary brochure here. The firm, which was started by Harry Adams in Bureau Lane, Pretoria, in 1908, has grown in stature and reputation to become the largest intellectual property law firm in South Africa, strongly supported by our commercial, civil litigation and property law departments. |
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 The South African Police Service has, in co-operation with well-known brand owners represented by Adams & Adams attorneys in South Africa, successfully prosecuted Papa Diop and Wide Road Import & Export CC for respectively dealing in and importing counterfeit goods in contravention of the Counterfeit Goods Act. |
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 On 26 June 2008, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”), an international, non profit, private-public partnership responsible for the administration of the internet, accepted a recommendation to expand the current generic Top Level Domain (TLD) names. Currently, there are limited numbers of TLDs available wherein businesses or individuals can register domain names. The most common current TLDs include .com, .net, .org etc. Since the original seven domain “dots” were established, ICANN has expanded the number of TLDs rarely and only by a handful each time. |
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 With soccer fever peaking as Manchester United, the current FA Premier League and European Club Champions, plays Orlando Pirates in Durban tomorrow (22 July), the selling – and buying – of counterfeit memorabilia could dampen the spirit. “Whilst registered vendors will be selling the rightful items, vendors with no respect for registered brands will obviously be out in full force, offering supporters illegal counterfeit items,” says trade mark attorney Marilyn Krige, partner at Adams & Adams, leading attorneys in intellectual property law. |
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 Garnett, who manages the Africa Patents Department, has extensive experience in the field of intellectual property, including the filing and prosecution of trade mark, patent and design applications, trade mark and copyright litigation, and the negotiating and drafting of licensing agreements. |
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 We are pleased to announce the opening of Adams & Adams Mozambique, in the capital, Maputo. The office, headed by partners Élio Teixeira and Carlos Martins, is now in operation. The extension of Adams & Adams practice to Mozambique has been done to improve and enhance the intellectual property law services we offer to our clients in Africa. |
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 Adams & Adams has been verified as a level five broad-based black economic empowerment company by the authoritative Empowerdex Trust. The verification deems Adams & Adams as a generic enterprise with a B-BBEE procurement recognition of 80%. It is deemed 2.2% black-owned and 1.1% owned by black women. |
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 Four Adams & Adams partners are listed in the 2008 edition of the International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers. Brett Oldridge is mentioned as a highly regarded individual under the trade marks section. He also received a special mention for his portfolio management work. Brett specialises in trade mark filings, searches and prosecutions and is a fellow of the South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law. |
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 Adams & Adams has appointed a new partner, Manisha Maganbhai-Mooloo. Maganbhai-Mooloo, who specialises in personal injury law, medical negligence, labour law and commercial law, joins the Commercial, Property and Litigation division. She holds a BA LLB from the University of the Witwatersrand and a Certificate in Advanced Labour Law from the University of Pretoria. She is currently enrolled for a Certificate in Medical Law at UNISA and the University of Pretoria. |
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 In an important decision handed down by the Cape High Court Disney Enterprises Inc., together with three other studios and their exclusive licensee, Nu Metro, were granted injunctive relief (and other relief) restraining Mr Video and twenty-two of its franchisees from infringing the copyright in various cinematograph films by importing and hiring out Zone 1 DVDs only intended for the North American market. The main question before the Court was whether the conduct of Mr Video and its franchisees constituted direct infringement in terms of Section 23(1) of the Copyright Act 98 of 1978 read with Section 8(1)(g) which provides that hiring out a film is the exclusive right of a copyright owner. |
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 The South Africa Registrar of Patents now accepts simple (uncertified) copies of Assignment of Invention documents as sufficient proof of title. |
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 The general principle of making a remarriage contingency deduction when calculating the loss of support claim of a widow is a well established one in our Law and is based on the following main objectives : |
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 A company formed by partners may be wound up under the “just and equitable” provision, where circumstances which would justify dissolution of a partnership exist. This is what the Supreme Court of Appeal held in the matter of Apco Africa v Apco Worldwide in a judgement delivered on 29 May 2008 under case number 372/2007. |
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The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Dr. Kamil Idris, welcomed the accession by the African Intellectual Property Organization (known by its French acronym OAPI - Organisation africaine de la propriété intellectuelle) to the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs on June 16, 2008. The Geneva Act is one of the three treaties that govern the Hague System for the international registration of industrial designs and offer businesses in all participating countries a simple, affordable and efficient way of obtaining and maintaining their industrial designs portfolios. |
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 The need to provide protection for the indigenous knowledge of communities, and the difficulty of finding an appropriate mechanism for providing such protection, have been intensely debated in recent years. One problem is that there is no generally accepted definition of Indigenous Knowledge (IK) or Traditional Knowledge (TK), nor clarity on the difference between these two concepts. Another problem is that there is no consensus on the manner in which IK/TK is to be protected. |
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The firm practises directly in several Southern African countries and through long-established associates in others.
