Brand owners know it. Brand creation firms know it. Trade mark professionals know it. So isn't it time we started talking about it? Better still, started doing something about it? ...
Back in 2013, we wrote an article about the Madrid Protocol, the treaty that regulates the international trade mark registration system.
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Ilse Du Plessis,
Rowan Forster,
André Maré,
Gaelyn Scott,
Rachel Sikwane,
Waldo Steyn,
Joanne van Harmelen
Exponential economic development across Africa has resulted in a greater necessity for increased protection of intellectual property ("IP") assets on the continent.
IP plays an extremely significant role in the world of toys, as a number of news reports have made very clear.
Welcome to the world of unconventional trade marks – smell, colours, shapes, sounds, tastes, gestures, moving logos and more.
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Ferosa-Fae Hassan
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.
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Ferosa-Fae Hassan
Issues of copyright infringement, particularly within the Hollywood and Bollywood context, have found their way to the court room.
With
Ferosa-Fae Hassan
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.
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