Legal Protection of TV Formats: Another Sui-Generis Area of Intellectual Property Law?
Imagine this scenario: You are a budding creator and film producer who develops this brilliant TV show which is being aired on one of our...
Read MoreThe Past 10 Years: Kenya's Copyright Office Turns One Decade Old This Month
On the 21st July 2003, the then Honourable Attorney General of the Republic of Kenya, S. Amos Wako, SC officially launched the Kenya Copyright Board...
Read MoreAnnouncement: Patent Drafting Course from 12 – 15 August 2013
Kenya Industrial Property Institute in collaboration with CIPIT will hold a training course on drafting and prosecuting patent applications from 12th -15th August 2013 at...
Read MoreThe Health Bill must empower the Cabinet Secretary for Health to utilise compulsory licensing
There are various types of Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement flexibilities. According to the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS flexibilities and...
Read MoreLDCs ‘Unconditional’ TRIPS Extension Granted But, Limited to 2021
A few weeks ago, this blogger explained here why the TRIPS Council must extend the least developing countries (LDCs) TRIPS Agreement compliance transition period for...
Read MoreThe Proposed Kenya Association of Intellectual Property Professionals (KAIPP)
CIPIT is pleased to invite you all to a stakeholders meeting on the proposed creation of an Intellectual Property (IP) association for Practitioners in Kenya,...
Read MoreOf Death and Registration: Rethinking Corporate Authorship in Copyright In Light of Emerging Jurisprudence on Corporate Citizenship in Kenya
In an earlier post, this blogger asked the question: what is the duration of copyright where the owner of the copyright work is a juristic...
Read MoreWhy extending the LDC’s TRIPs transition period is inevitable
The US and the European Union have lost the war. They cannot stand against the army of supporters backing the least developing countries (LDCs) to...
Read MoreIn Support of An Intellectual Property Association of Kenya
It was in response to Isaac’s post on Afro-IP that this blogger put forth the idea of setting up a bona fide association for intellectual...
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