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World Intellectual Property Day 2017 Theme: “Innovation – Improving Lives”

As readers of this blog may already know, on April 26th every year, the World Intellectual Property Day is celebrated with the purpose of “learning...

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A Review of the Computer and Cybercrimes Bill, 2016

Cybercrime, referred to as crime conducted through the internet or some other computer network, has been rampant both in Kenya and around the world. According...

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A New Look at High Tech Hubs in the 'Digital Savannah': Part 1

Toward the end of 2016, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg visited tech hubs in Kenya and Nigeria. During this, he remarked: “The future will...

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41,320 Reasons to Use CIPIT Trademark Database in Kenya

Last year we launched our Trade Marks (TM) Database – a groundbreaking web-based portal for conducting free searches of recent trade mark applications advertised by...

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Book Review: “A Kenyan Startup Journey: My 10 Key Lessons” by Hilda Moraa

It was a tough journey I must say, though there were moments of joy too, and all that contributed to what we learnt as a...

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Book Review: "Digital Kenya: An Entrepreneurial Revolution in the Making" edited by Bitange Ndemo & Tim Weiss

The editors of Digital Kenya: An Entrepreneurial Revolution in the Making describe it as a ‘book of arguments and ideas’ and this blogger agrees with...

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Startups Must Keep Innovating to ‘Survive’

The stronger the assumption that the future will function as today does, the greater the gravitational force of the status quo. Organizations set in their...

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Fuzu & Flare: 2 Kenyan Tech Startups to Watch in 2017

Following our earlier post here on 5 Kenyan startups recognised globally for using digital technology to positively impact the society, this blogger has come across two...

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WIPO's 11th Edition of the Nice Classification of Marks Now in Force

The Nice Classification is the international classification of goods and services used when applying for the registration of marks. The 11th edition of the Nice...

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