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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.
African Regional Intellectual Property Organization. The African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO), formerly African Regional Industrial Property Organization, is an intergovernmental organization for cooperation among African states in patent and other intellectual property matters. ARIPO was established by the Lusaka ...
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.
1959 – Trevor Wadley invented the Tellurometer, the first successful microwave distance measurement device. 1962 – SANAE I, the first South African Antarctic base is built. [ 22][ 23] 1963 – The Dolos was developed in East London. 1965, 18 March – SAFARI-1, the first nuclear reactor on the African continent, goes critical.
Computer programs and the PCT. v. t. e. The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) is an international patent law treaty, concluded in 1970. It provides a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions in each of its contracting states. A patent application filed under the PCT is called an international application, or PCT ...
The TRIPS Agreement waiver (officially titled the Waiver from certain provisions of the TRIPS Agreement for the Prevention, Containment and Treatment of COVID-19) [1] is a joint intervention communication by South Africa and India to the TRIPS council of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on 2 October 2020. [2][3] The two countries are ...
Glossary. v. t. e. First to file and first to invent are legal concepts that define who has the right to the grant of a patent for an invention. Since March 16, 2013, after the United States abandoned its "first to invent/document" system, all countries have operated under the "first-to-file" patent priority requirement. [1]
Registration of copyright in cinematograph films in South Africa; S. South African patent system This page was last edited on 30 August 2018, at 13:43 (UTC). Text ...