Intellectual Property Assets Consulting

23/03/2016

Coming soon!

Official World Intellectual Property Day 2016 Posters

Every April 26 we celebrate World IP Day to promote discussion of the role of intellectual property in encouraging innovation and creativity. This year’s World IP Day theme is “Digital Creativity: Culture Reimagined”.

23/03/2016

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Excavating the Digital World

Did you know that a 2014 exhibition at the UK’s Barbican Centre classed Space Invaders, Tetris and Pong as examples of “digital archaeology”. Without a doubt these iconic video games have become symbols of digital creativity in recent decades. What was the first video game that you played?

Tetris ® & © 1985~2016 Tetris Holding. Image: The Tetris Company.

07/01/2016

Landmark infringement cases force companies to rethink brand names -

Trademark laws have evolved over the years forcing some local companies to rebrand to avoid hefty fines.

23/11/2015

A new paper by a respected scholar proposes that the trademark community takes advantage of modern “smart information” and provide brand owners...

27/09/2015

Chinese trademark squatting; others have been burned before, so African brands beware! | Mail & Guardian Africa http://ow.ly/3yfpy1

African wine and food producers need to ensure their brands are protected.

14/09/2015

This week President Kenyatta (pictured above) signed into law the Companies Bill 2015 that does away with the Companies Act Chapter 486 of the Laws...

30/07/2015

Here is what you missed:

https://ipkenya.wordpress.com/2015/07/27/recap-of-6th-global-entrepreneurship-summit-2015-geskenya2015/

In a previous post here, this blogger announced that among the topics to be discussed at the 6th Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) was the protection of intellectual capital with a sharp focus o...

30/07/2015

In case you missed it:

https://ipkenya.wordpress.com/2015/07/24/recap-of-wipo-african-sub-regional-workshop-on-new-perspectives-on-copyright/

This week, African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) hosted the WIPO African Sub-regional Workshop on New Perspectives on Copyright organized by the World Intellectual Property Or...

22/07/2015

Wearable tech businesses, as with other technology businesses, have a heavy reliance on their intellectual property (IP).

14/07/2015

IN THE NEWS TODAY

Justice Francis Gikonyo varies orders that has stopped use of trademark Cipla.

13/07/2015

This blogger has come across a recent judgment from Uganda's Commercial Court in the case of Tuskys (U) Ltd v. Tusker Mattresses (U) Ltd [2015]...

09/07/2015

A copy of the June Intellectual Property Journal can be found here https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6xf-O8Ys-Bnd2t6ME9KaFNGMEE/view?usp=sharing