With the UK set to leave the EU on 30 March 2019, many trade mark owners will be wondering what this will mean for their trade mark registrations in the region.

The IP analytics firm Darts-IP has recently published a report entitled Top 10 Product Comparisons Worldwide.

Owners of trade marks in Mozambique should take heed of recent developments in IP rights in the country.

An increasing number of African companies do business in the Far East, and many of them register their trade marks in the region's major markets.

Recent developments in the UK regarding plain-packaging requirements for cigarettes have again shone the spotlight on this contentious issue.

Issues of copyright infringement, particularly within the Hollywood and Bollywood context, have found their way to the court room.

It has always been the practice of the Industrial Property Institute of Mozambique to prohibit the refiling of trade marks that have been finally refused, which has posed a serious obstacle to trade mark applicants...

A recent European trade mark decision highlights how risky it can be to simply register the word version of a trade mark that is used in a stylised form.

A hashtag is basically any word or phrase that's preceded by either the hashtag symbol (#) or the word "hashtag".

Trade mark non-use cases come up a lot. A non-use cancellation action might be filed in response to a threat, such as an infringement claim or a trade mark opposition.

A long, long time ago - on 11 July 2004 to be precise - an article appeared in the South African Sunday Times...

Local trade mark applications in Zimbabwe can be fairly expensive.

There are lessons to be learnt from the long-running Specsavers saga.

The recent US-Africa Business Forum - an event that was attended by major US corporations including Ford, GE, Morgan Stanley and Coca Cola - has created a certain amount of optimism.

The trade mark laws of the world are, by and large, fairly well harmonised, or at least well on their way to becoming so.