Vindicating Your Intellectual Property Rights: Penny Galore Ltd. v. Amani Women's Group
Earlier this week, Amani Women’s Group posted a blog article here after receiving a Cease and Desist Demand Notice from Penny Galore Ltd. In the...
Read MoreAnti-Homosexuality Law and Intellectual Property Collide: Denver David Robinson vs. Red Pepper Uganda
In a recent article in the New York Times here, it is alleged that Ugandan tabloid newspaper Red Pepper infringed the copyright of Denver David...
Read MoreWorld Intellectual Property Day 2014 Theme Revealed: "Movies – a Global Passion"
The theme selected by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) for this year’s World Intellectual Property (WIP) Day celebrations could not be a better fit...
Read MoreCourt Rules Public Performance and Communication to the Public Licenses Are Distinct Under Copyright
On February 14, 2014 in the case of Nairobi Pacific Hotel vs KAMP & PRISK CMCC 7240 of 2013, the court dismissed an application filed...
Read MoreProtection 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...
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