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Adams & Adams - @Cr8veDesignHall – exhibiting at Design Indaba 2012.  Come and see us at Cape Town ICC – Exhibitor stall 37.12.

Wondering who’s the next up-and-coming talent on the South African design scene? Well, 39 uniquely distinctive designers, across of fields of design from jewellery – students from the Thukuhuka Development Jewellery Design Programme and the College of Cape Town Gugulethu Campus jewellery designers will also attend -  and industrial design, to photography and music, and furniture and lighting, will be waiting in the wings of the 17^th annual Design Indaba Expo on 2 to 4 March 2012 as they eagerly await the outcome of the Emerging Creative programme sponsored by the Department of Arts and Culture.

Adams & Adams has been involved in the filing and prosecution of the basic “Stable Table” inventions since 1997.  StableTable® is a range of patented, self-stabilising tables that works both inside and out and can help caterers solve issues caused by uneven floors. It can be used on any surface including tiles, wood or cobblestones, manages height differences up to 20-25mm, and can be fitted with any type of table top.

South Africa has a treasure trove of indigenous stories which is passed down orally from generation to generation and while this culture of storytelling remains intact; it is transforming and entering new mediums such as films. Local films, such as Tsotsi, have received international acclaim and bear testament to the fact that South Africans are great storytellers. But success and popularity in the film industry ultimately attracts unwanted attention in the form of piracy!

Adams & Adams - @Cr8veDesignHall – exhibiting at Design Indaba 2012.  Come and see us at Cape Town ICC – Exhibitor stall 37.12.

Internationally-acclaimed Intellectual Property practice Adams & Adams has been appointed the official attorneys and associate sponsor of the seventeenth annual Design Indaba. Ravi Naidoo, the CEO and founder of Design Indaba says “This is a first in the history of Design Indaba to partner with a law firm.  We are very excited to be able to work with a law firm that appreciates the value of creativity and is focused on protecting the intellectual property of artists, designers and creative minds, on board.”

Adams & Adams – now the largest intellectual property practice in Africa and in the southern hemisphere is consolidating its positioning on the African continent with the opening of offices in Tanzania and Burundi.  These offices are the third and fourth African offices in the Adams & Adams organisation.  This development follows just weeks after the firm’s merger of the intellectual property practice of Bowman Gilfillan into its own.

The National Lotteries Board has acted swiftly in responding to proceedings instituted by NGO Molteno Language and Literacy Institute, represented by law firm Adams & Adams last week.

‘At a time when we’re having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.’

                                                                                    David Cameron - Prime Minister of Britain

In the recent case between Rafael Vergara Hermosilla and The Cola-Cola Company, The Coca-Cola Company was accused of infringing copyright in a translation of a song used in promotions for the 2010 FIFA WORLD CUP. The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that it had a perfect defence because the copyright had been assigned to it as the result of an ordinary exchange of e-mails. Will the position be the same in South Africa?

The Molteno Institute for Language and Literacy has announced that it is taking the National Lottery to court over  the reversal of a decision to award R20 million per year to the non-governmental organisation (NGO). This comes as just last Friday, hundreds of people representing NGOs took part in a protest march accusing the National Lottery of unfair treatment.

South Africa’s leading full-service digital agency, NXT\ Digital Innovation, has completed yet another successful website launch. Commissioned by specialist intellectual property law firm, Adams & Adams, NXT\ assisted in the creative rationale and conceptualisation of the new website layout and design.