Mark My Words
October 10, 2024
Trade mark classification plays a crucial role in safeguarding your brand and ensuring the correct legal protection for your goods or services. By accurately classifying a […]
September 30, 2024
The introduction of ChatGPT has revolutionized the way people interact with computers forever. We are only at the very beginning of what is being called the […]
November 10, 2023
On 10 October 2023 the Constitutional Court of South Africa, found that section 7(3)(a) of the Divorce Act No. 70 of 1979 is inconsistent with the […]
August 19, 2022
Comparative advertising can be defined as “an advertisement in which a particular product or service specifically mentions a competitor by name for the express purpose of […]
June 3, 2021
Non-Fungible Tokens, or “NFT’s” have become increasingly popular. What, you may ask, is a NFT? Essentially, a NFT is a unique set of digits which represents […]
March 13, 2020
In a matter before the Constitutional Court in 2015, before some of our most learned legal minds, the question of infidelity and the remedies available to […]
September 18, 2019
On 23 August, two award-winning IT developers, Thandile Jwambi and Tatolo Kutumane, reinstituted legal proceedings against Nedbank this time in the High Court in Johannesburg for […]
July 19, 2019
Although uncommon, non-conventional trade marks for scent and taste such as “the strong scent of bitter beer applied to flights for darts”, or the “taste of liquorice in relation […]
June 21, 2019
On 18 September 2018 the Constitutional Court unanimously confirmed the Cape High Court judgment from 17 March 2017, effectively legalizing the use of cannabis by South […]
May 10, 2019
The Department of Trade and Industry has initiated the process of implementing an updated Copyright Bill in the hopes of protecting composers, musician, artists and authors. […]
April 3, 2018
With the passing of the first anniversary of the Exchange Control Regulation amendments of 01 March 2017, (Exchange Control Circulars Nos. 7 & 8 of 2017) […]
February 26, 2018
For those who keep vicious pets and who have wondered what liability they would have towards a victim of your pet and for those who have […]
December 6, 2017
We all use social media at some point – whether it’s for business purposes, catching up with friends or scrolling through posts of exotic destinations on […]
September 26, 2017
Anybody who has been through a contentious divorce, which category most divorces fall under, knows how many different tactics can be used by an aggrieved ex-partner […]
May 17, 2017
The Recognition of Customary Marriages Act, 120 of 1998 (“RCMA”) came into operation on 15 November 2000 with the following intentions, among others: To make provision […]