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ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Commerce, unanimously, approved, “The Imports and Exports (Control)...

In the United States, trademarks are governed on the federal level by the Lanham Act (also known as the Trademark Act of 1946), which was enacted on July 5, 1946, and is codified at 15...

Trademark owners take note: In Abitron Austria GmbH et al. v. Hetronic International, Inc. the Supreme Court definitively ruled that Sections 1114(1)(a) and 1125(a)(1) of the Lanham Act...

Applying A Two-Part Test, The Majority Held The Lanham Act Is Not Extraterritorial. Court explained that the policy reason behind this presumption is to avoid the international discord that could result if U.S. law were to apply in foreign countries

The government opens opportunities for traditional goods and services to be registered as international brands or trademarks, Secretary General of the Law and ...

It is understandable why (most) trademarks owners do not like the five-year dependency period of an international registration since in case of…

Woldu Yemmesel, Director General of the Ethiopian Intellectual Property Authority, headed a delegation from Ethiopia to the Sixty-Fourth Series of Meetings of the Assemblies of the Member States of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

Politricks could be suffocating efforts to turn humanity’s best data into protection, legal experts have told polar scientists in Lisbon. Failure to review key governance bodies and decision-making processes may also hold to ransom the future of a wilderness that spans 10% of Earth.

In this article we consider some of the challenges brands and individuals face in the protection and enforcement of their Intellectual Property (IP) in Africa.

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