Worldwide Activities On Licensing Issues Relating To Standard Essential Patents

Industrial Property Law numbered 6769 (“IP Law”) has come into force after being published in the official gazette on January 10, 2017 and numbered 29944.

Some of the most notable changes brought by IP Law in the new Patent system are as following:

Post-grant opposition proceedings:

The notable improvement is that a post-grant opposition system is brought by the new IP law in line with the system ruled in Article 99 EPC. The existing Decree Law  numbered 551 […]

By | March 5th, 2019 ||

The Scent Of A Trademark: Removal Of Graphic Representability Requirement

he EU Directive 2015/2436 (“The Directive”), which aims to approximate the laws of the member states relating to trademarks, discards the graphic representation requirement for trademark applications. We will look into the potential impact on trademark registration and have a glimpse at the challenges that might arise from it.

According to the new definition of signs which are capable of constituting a trademark, provided by the EU Directive 2015/2436, the capability of the graphic representation of […]

By | March 1st, 2019 ||

Do The Recent UK Trade Mark Amendments Apply To South Africa?

Certain amendments to the UK Trade Marks Act 1994 and their Trade Mark Rules 2008 came into effect on 14 January 2019. These changes implement the EU Trade Mark Directive 2015 in the UK. In other words these changes have been made and are now effective, in all EU countries.

These amendments (or any other amendment made), however, do not apply to South Africa – although our Trade Marks Act, when passed into law, was […]

By | March 1st, 2019 ||