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The Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) is an agency of the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition in South Africa. [1] The CIPC was established by the Companies Act, 2008 (Act No. 71 of 2008) [2] as a juristic person to function as an organ of state within the public administration, but as an institution outside the public service.
Aggrieved, SABMiller, which owned the Carling Black Label trademarks (and authorised South African Breweries to use them in South Africa), sued Laugh It Off in the High Court of South Africa. [ 2 ] SAB contended that Laugh It Off's use of its registered trademarks constituted trademark dilution in terms of section 34(1)(c) of the Trade Marks ...
The South African law of sale is an area of the legal system in that country that describes rules applicable to a contract of sale (or, to be more specific, purchase and sale, or emptio venditio), generally described as a contract whereby one person agrees to deliver to another the free possession of a thing in return for a price in money.
South African contract law is "essentially a modernized version of the Roman-Dutch law of contract", [1] and is rooted in canon and Roman laws. In the broadest definition, a contract is an agreement two or more parties enter into with the serious intention of creating a legal obligation. Contract law provides a legal framework within which ...
Trademark owned by Philips in the European Union and various other jurisdictions, but invalidated in the United States due to it being merely a descriptive term. [1] [2] [3] Aspirin Still a Bayer trademark name for acetylsalicylic acid in about 80 countries, including Canada and many countries in Europe, but declared generic in the U.S. [4] Catseye
The Madrid system comprises two treaties; the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks, [fn 1] which was concluded in 1891, and entered into force in 1892, and the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement, which came into operation on 1 April 1996. The Madrid Agreement and Madrid Protocol were adopted at diplomatic ...
The WIPO Hague System provides an international mechanism for securing and managing design rights simultaneously, in multiple countries and regions, [1] through one application filed directly with WIPO. [2] The resulting international registration provides design owners with the equivalent of a bundle of national or regional registrations.
The agreements establish a Special Union under Article 19 of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (1883). [4] Some aspects of the agreement have been superseded by the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights .