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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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Intellectual property comprises many different rights that come into existence because of the creative efforts of individuals. Your morning workout is in a pair of Puma trainers and Nike shorts and T-shirt. Back from the gym you toast Woolworths bread in a Salton toaster – which enjoys design protection - get into the shower and use Palmolive soap, brush your teeth with Aquafresh toothpaste before getting into your BMW to go to work. This vehicle uses technology that is probably made up of certain inventions, for example in the braking system or fuel system, which may be protected by patents. The design of the body work could be protected by a registered design. On the way you may listen to music on your iPod and talk, via your blue tooth, on your Samsung cell phone. |
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 ADAMS & ADAMS – EXPERT OPINION The National Credit Act that has been in operation for a year on 1 June, has proven its worth, says Leander Opperman, Head of Banking Law at Adams & Adams attorneys. “The Act ensures that the consumer, the borrower in this case, is certain of his or her rights when entering into a credit agreement and that these rights are protected. However, the responsibilities of the borrower and the credit provider are equally important. |
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Poor African farmers can boost export revenues from agriculture by billions of dollars if they use intellectual property as part of their business plans, a report released at the World Economic Forum said on Thursday. The report by Washington-based non-profit organisation Light Years IP and supported by Britain's Department for International Development, focuses on the potential intellectual property (IP) to raise income for low earning producers in sub-Saharan Africa. |
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 Adams & Adams' contribution in the South African chapter of World Trademark Review, 2008 Yearbook by Chris Job, Lindie Serrurier and Godfrey Budeli. |
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Comment on this article The Herald (Harare) 22 May 2008 Posted to the web 22 May 2008 Harare HARARE Institute of Technology has positioned itself as a state-of-the-art institute and tries to be in the forefront of making available new technology responsive to national needs so that it can contribute to the rapid industrialisation of Zimbabwe. Board chairman of the Harare Institute of Technology, Dr Gibson Mandishona, laid out the aims at the presentation of certificates to 19 participants of the African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation (Aripo) Training Workshop on Intellectual Property and Patent Acquisition last week. GA_googleFillSlot("AllAfrica_Story_Inset"); |
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The firm practises directly in several Southern African countries and through long-established associates in others.
