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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.
Saba & Co. Intellectual Property, commonly referred to as Saba IP, is an intellectual property firm active in Middle East and Africa. Saba IP's services include trademark prosecution, trademark search, patent registration, litigation, IP enforcement, legal and technical translation, and copyright services.
The South African patent system is the system by which patents are granted in South Africa. As is the case in many other countries, a patent provides legal protection for a new and industrially applicable invention. This invention, which constitutes either a product or process, has to be brought about as a result of an inventive step ...
At a patents and copyright seminar for English-speaking African countries organised in October 1972 by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), the country representatives endorsed a plan to have WIPO and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) organise a conference to discuss the harmonisation of industrial ...
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 ...
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In South Africa, for example, in Mathias International Ltd v Baillache, [12] the applicants instituted motion proceedings in which they claimed (i) an Anton Piller order and (ii) interdictory relief directed at prohibiting unlawful competition by the first and second respondents using the applicants' "confidential information".
For example, in the United States, trademark rights are established either (1) through first use of the mark in commerce, creating common law rights limited to the geographic areas of use, or (2) through federal registration with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), with use in commerce required to maintain the registration.