Protection of Well Known Trade and Service Marks in Kenya
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIBHuqeis3U] On this subject of well known marks, this blogger invites readers to listen to audio recordings of the presentations made by KIPI trade mark...
Read MoreCopyright Board To Review Guidelines for Collective Management Organisations
This blogger has learned that KECOBO is in the process of the review its CMO Guidelines titled “Guidelines for Licensing Collective Management Organisations”. These CMO...
Read MoreAnton Piller Orders Issued Against Major Broadcasters for Intellectual Property Rights Breach
BREAKING: @PoliceKE in the company of @theMCSK raids @onefmke for copyright infringement in their broadcasting operations! — Music Copyright Society of Kenya (MCSK) (@TheMCSK) January...
Read MoreThe International Trade Marks Registration System From A Kenyan Perspective
Editor’s note: For more on the Quail farming craze in Kenya, see here. As many are aware, the system of international registration of trademarks facilitates...
Read MoreKenya's Patent Wars: Sanitam Services vs Everyone
“The [matter] before us focuses on a branch of law which has scanty litigation and therefore minimal jurisprudential corpus in this country, but which has...
Read MoreContent Licensing Requires Salesmanship: Lessons from the Banned "Wolf of Wall Street"
One of the most talked about stories in the month of January was the decision by the Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB) to ban the...
Read More#PharmaGate: South Africa’s Push for Patent Law Reforms Exposes Both Government and Drug Companies
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciedlxUDjS4] The Mail and Guardian (M&G) newspaper in South Africa published a story titled: “Motsoaledi: Big pharma’s ‘satanic’ plot is genocide” where it is reported...
Read MoreVictory for Synchronisation Rights in Kenya: John Katana v. Royal Media Services
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7EQKJ_2L-4] IP Kenya has learned that John Katana, renowned musician and founder member of the legendary Kenyan band, “Them Mushrooms”, has obtained judgment in the...
Read MoreDigital Migration and Intellectual Property Rights in Kenya
“The allegations made against the respondents betray a misunderstanding by the petitioners of the process of digital broadcasting transmission. The petitioners, who are content providers,...
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