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 […]
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 […]
According to the Companies Act 71 2008, and the Close Corporation Act 96 1984, a company, or close corporation (“CC”), which fails to file its annual […]
12 April 1955 history was made when the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis announced: “The vaccine works. It is safe, effective and potent”. This announcement came […]
Earlier this year the Department of Health published draft amendments to the Regulations relating to the Foodstuffs, Cosmetics and Disinfectants Act, 1972, which regulates the labelling […]
According to the South African Copyright Act No. 98 of 1978 the owner of the copyright in a photograph is defined as the person responsible for the […]
A LOOK AT REALITY TELEVISION CASE LAW AND BREACH OF CONFIDENCE In about 2006, Brian Wade and Geraldine Perry conceived an idea for a reality television […]
ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE HUMAN GENE PATENT While patent offices around the world have been granting patents which lay claim to human gene sequences for decades, […]
A VIEW ON THE ROLE OF PATENTS IN ANTI-BIOTIC RESISTANCE There is a fundamental conflict between a desire to maximise profits by selling a patented antibiotic […]
A VIEW ON INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE IN SOUTH AFRICA “… knowledge, unique to a given culture or society, which accumulates over generations, as communities interact with their […]
AN OVERVIEW OF THE DRAFT NATIONAL IP POLICY The Draft National Policy on Intellectual Property was released for public comment in September 2013. The policy aims […]