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Government clarifies its position on competition policy for jobs and industrial development
01 Jun 2021BY Aidan Scallan On 19 May 2021, the Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition, Ebrahim Patel, released a policy statement on “Competition Policy for Jobs and Industrial Development”.
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Trade marks: you gotta have (good) faith
IP | 31 May 2021BY Liézal Mostert In South Africa, as in many jurisdictions, the concept of good faith (bona fides) crops up a lot.
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Copyright…hell or divine?
IP | 31 May 2021BY André J Maré Remember Nirvana?
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Confusingly similar trade marks: what’s happening in Europe?
IP | 31 May 2021BY Ilse du Plessis We tend to keep an eye on trade mark developments in Europe. It makes sense because South African trade mark law is very similar to EU trade mark law and there’s far more activity in the EU.
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Africa Tax in Brief
25 May 2021BY Celia Becker The latest tax news and developments across Africa
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Kenya’s new National Lands Information Management System – what landowners need to know
18 May 2021BY Anne Odhiambo, Nigel Shaw, Brenda Matu The Kenyan Ministry of Lands has launched the National Land Information Management System , also known as “Ardhi Sasa”.
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Long-awaited clarity on broad-based black ownership
18 May 2021BY Witness Makhubele, Sanjay Kassen The Minister of Employment and Labour has given notice that he intends introducing the Occupational Health and Safety Amendment Bill, 2020.
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South Africa: Occupational Health and Safety Act, 1993 – Publication of the Occupational Health and Safety Amendment Bill, 2020
18 May 2021BY Tyla Foster, Warren Hendricks, Gerhardt Ehlers, Juanita Broom, Pieter Colyn, Willem le Roux, Celeste Coles On Friday, 14 May 2021, GN. 422 of 2021 was published in Government Gazette No. 44572
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Is it time to relook water governance in South Africa?
07 May 2021BY James Brand The number of rivers in South Africa deemed to be in a poor ecological state has increased alarmingly in recent times.
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Africa regulatory ENSight
Africa regulatory ENSight | 05 May 2021BY issue 4 of 2021
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Draft PAIA Regulations: impracticalities to be faced by foreign entities
technology, media and telecommunications | 04 May 2021BY Era Gunning In terms of section 51 of the Promotion of Access to Information Act, 2000 (as amended by the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013, all private bodies must have a PAIA manual.
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Nivea Men and Connie Men
IP | 30 Apr 2021BY Delene Bertasso The South African Supreme Court of Appeal recently considered the claim of passing off in Koni Multinational Brands v Beiersdorf AG.
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SCA: we’ll have no truck with this patent
IP | 30 Apr 2021BY Hugo Biermann As so often happens, a claim of patent infringement was met with an attack on the validity of the patent.
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Product design – a corporate arm’s race?
IP | 30 Apr 2021BY Dr. Joanne van Harmelen A recent article in the Guardian highlight’s one of IP lawyers’ more difficult sells: the registered design.
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Google has good reason to be API
IP | 30 Apr 2021BY André J Maré The US Supreme Court has ruled that Google was entitled to use elements of Oracle’s Java application programming interface code when building Android
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