The Intellectual Property Registration Office oversees the registration of various types of intellectual property including that of trademarks, copyright, designs, and patents. The Intellectual Property Registration Office is located in Pretoria where applications are lodged. Although with most works protected under the copyright laws of South Africa, you will not be able to apply for [...]
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 [...]
An intellectual property attorney deals with all types of intellectual property whether copyright, patent, trademark or design related. To fully understand the role of the intellectual property attorney we have to look at the term intellectual property. It refers to creations of the mind whereby the owners of the rights have monopolies over the usage [...]
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 [...]
Intellectual property plays an important role in an increasingly broad range of areas, ranging from the Internet to health care to nearly all aspects of science and technology and literature and the arts. Understanding the role of intellectual property in these areas – many of them still emerging – often requires significant new research and [...]
WIPO issues a message from the Director General each year, broadcasts a short publicity spot on international television channels, and dispatches posters and other promotional materials to IP offices and organizations. Reports of activities organized by Member States are published on WIPO website To raise awareness of how patents, copyright, trademarks and designs impact on [...]
Most people are aware of intellectual property (IP) – of copyright, patents, industrial designs and trademarks. But many still view these as business or legal concepts with little relevance to their own lives. To address this gap, WIPO’s Member States decided in 2000 to designate an annual World Intellectual Property Day. They chose April 26, [...]
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