Celebrating Trailblazing Kenyan Women in Innovation and Creativity: World Intellectual Property Day 2018
The theme for this year’s World Intellectual Property (WIP) Day on 26 April is ‘Powering change: Women in innovation and creativity’. According to the World...
Read MoreWIPO Setting Up External Offices in Africa – What to Expect
On 14 December 2017, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Director General Francis Gurry and Ambassador Audu Ayinla Kadiri, Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the...
Read MoreIntellectual Property Collateralisation in the Age of the Movable Property Security Rights Act: The Case of Nakumatt Supermarkets
By Victor B. Nzomo & Perpetua N. Mwangi** Nakumatt Holdings Limited (Nakumatt) is the proprietor of the largest supermarket retail chain in East and Central...
Read MoreE-Commerce and the Law in Kenya: Domain Names, Trade Marks and Dispute Resolution
This semester, we kick off a brand new course for final year undergraduate law students on e-commerce and the law. This course aims at explaining...
Read MoreInternet Governance Forum 2017 Day 2
A full day of #IGF2017 began with a content-packed session on ‘Emerging Challenges for Data Protection in Latin American Countries’. As Kenya continues to grapple...
Read MoreIntellectual Property in Kenya: Social Media Pros and Cons
Last semester I spoke to the 3rd Year Strathmore Law Class on the topic of Social Media. Being an intellectual property (IP) law class, I...
Read MoreInside the CMO – PERAK – KAHC Deal on Tariff for Hotels, Bars and Restaurants Part 4
The Copyright Act of 2001 is an Act of Parliament to make provision for copyright in literary, musical and artistic works, audio-visual works, sound recordings,...
Read MoreIntellectual Property in Kenya: Social Media and Intermediary Liability
This semester I spoke to the 3rd Year Strathmore Law Class on the topic of Social Media. Being an intellectual property law class, I divided...
Read MoreEast African Community Intellectual Property Rights Regime Study Report by KAM
In 2016, Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) with support from TradeMark East Africa commissioned a study on intellectual property (IP) rights with a specific focus...
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