You may require the assistance of an intellectual property lawyer when you have infringed on the rights of an intellectual property holder. This can easily happen when you have a website and have used material from another site to create an article. If not properly sited and if you don’t have the written permission from [...]
Nobody needs to be told how much technology have advanced over then past few decades, and this development seems to still be accelerating daily. When it comes to intellectual property, this progress has led to many new media, classifications and categories that require their own types of regulation. As specialist intellectual property lawyers, Smit & [...]
With the continuous accelerated advancement of technology, we are constantly bombarded with new media and fresh and innovative ways of expressing creativity. At the same time, the intellectual property law that is meant to protect these creations cannot always evolve at the same rate, and it is possible for some individuals to take advantage of [...]
Software forms in indispensable part of our daily lives, and large amount s of money goes into developing specialised programmes to help companies perform better, faster and more efficiently. Because of this large investment, it does happen at times that there are disputes of ownership between individual creators and companies. To ensure a fair outcome, [...]
Because not all property with value is always tangible, a series of laws have been developed over the years to protect what is collectively known as intellectual property. While these laws are mainly restricted to the applicable territories, the have been standardised to a large extent internationally. These laws usually provide legal monopolies over creations [...]
Intellectual property law refers to all legislation concerning aspects such as patent, trademark and copyright protection. It is meant to protect the intellectual property of legal entities, as this ‘property’ can also carry significant value and is thus vulnerable for exploitation by outside parties. With the exception of copyrights, intellectual property law in South Africa [...]
In basic terms, the function of intellectual property lawyers is to assist you with legal issues regarding intangible, but valuable aspects of your business, such as protection of your unique logo, new inventions and innovative strategies. These three examples each represent an important subsection of intellectual property, namely trademarks, patents and copyrights. All of them [...]
All Intellectual property applications in South Africa must be made to the Companies and Intellectual Property Registration Office in Pretoria. Although not legally necessary, such Intellectual property applications should be handled by an Intellectual property lawyer. The wording and documentation of any Intellectual property applications has to be precise, and this is always best carried [...]
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