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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.
Before 1978, in the United States, federal copyright was generally secured by the act of publication with notice of copyright or by registration of an unpublished work. [1] This has now been largely superseded by international conventions, principally the Berne Convention , which provide rights harmonized at an international level without a ...
1. Notice/Awareness [12] Consumers should be given notice of an entity's information practices before any personal information is collected from them. [12] This requires that companies explicitly notify some or all of the following: identification of the entity collecting the data; identification of the uses to which the data will be put;
CIPC is an abbreviation which may refer to: CIPC-FM, radio station; Companies and Intellectual Property Commission, South African government agency; Chlorpropham, a plant growth regulator also known as CIPC; Cleveland International Piano Competition, an international classical music competition
The responsibility for ensuring that the application is valid resides with the applicant. South Africa is a non-examining country. This means that CIPC does not investigate the novelty or inventive merit of the invention - only the form of documentation is verified and not the substance of the product or process.
A Notice of Claimed Infringement or NOCI is a notice from the owner of a copyrighted material to an online service provider. The notice identifies copyrighted material, alleges unauthorized use, and demands expeditious removal.
Part (h)(2)(A) requires that the owner's request include "a copy of a notification described in subsection (c)(3)(A)" (a takedown notice, see above). Note that 512(c)(3)(A)(iii) states that the notice must identify the allegedly infringing material that is to be removed and must provide reasonably sufficient information for the service provider ...
It falls under the Ministry of Trade and Industry. All forms of companies (as permitted by Botswana Companies and Intellectual Property Authority Act) are incorporated and registered with CIPA and file specific details as required by the current Companies and Intellectual Property Authority Act. [2]