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Google’s Silver Bullet for Patent Trolls

Technology companies take note: Google may have found a way to beat patent trolls, and you are invited to join them. The term “patent troll” refers to an entity which exists for the sole purpose of enforcing or licensing patent rights which were not the result of its own innovation. Although the term “patent assertion […]

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Posted in Editorial, IPStell, Patents Tagged Google, LOT, network, patent, patent pool, troll

Criminal Plants – New Plant Breeders’ Rights Bill

[box] Editor: Among the various pillars of the intellectual property law, perhaps the most esoteric is that of plant breeders’ rights. Despite its significant scientific and economic role, this peculiar and highly specialised field is unfamiliar to most outside the field of IP law. It is therefore with pleasure that the Chair of IP Law reproduce here a […]

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Posted in Editorial, IPStell, Plant Breeders Rights Tagged Bill, breeders, crime, plant, review, rights

A limited victory: IP and exchange control

In the culmination of a widely followed case, on 1 October 2014 the Supreme Court of Appeal ordered the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) to repay Mark Shuttleworth over R250 million plus interest. The money had been levied against Shuttleworth when he applied to transfer his assets out of the country in 2009. He had […]

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Posted in Editorial, IPStell Tagged capital, control, exchange, IP, shuttleworth, tax

The First Step

This is an editorial article contributed to the 50th year Commemorative Edition of Responsa Meridiana. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a first step”. So said Lao-tzu, the Chinese philosopher, who lived in the fifth century BC. How true this can be of a legal career and indeed of any on-going venture. When […]

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Posted in Editorial, IPStell Tagged career, intellectual, intellectual property, IP, law, meridiana, responsa

Patents and Public Health – The New Frontier

The long-awaited South African draft National Policy on Intellectual Property (the draft IP Policy) which was published on 4 September 2013 (read the policy here) has recently led to an unfortunate furore in the press. On 17 January 2014 Money MSN published a report based on a document that was leaked from the Innovative Pharmaceutical […]

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Posted in Editorial, IPStell, Patents Tagged DNPIP, draft, health, patent, Pharmaceutical, policy, public

Formula For Plain (Bland) Packaging

As of 6 December this year you will no longer see a nurturing mother feeding her happy baby a bottle of formula milk as an advertisement in any newspaper, magazine, on a website or on television. In fact, you will not see the names of any brand or logos of infant formula, follow-up formula or […]

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Posted in Editorial, IPStell, Trade Marks Tagged baby, formula, health, milk, plain packaging, regulation

Confessions Of A Privileged Lawyer

I have a confession to make. I plead guilty as charged. I admit that I am a white male establishment lawyer. I practised for 35 years as a partner of a prominent attorneys firm specialising in the field of intellectual property law (“IP”). Thereafter, upon retirement, I became a Professor of IP Law. This makes […]

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Posted in Editorial, IPStell Tagged attorney, client, intellectual property, IP, lawyer, practice, transformation

Clean Power Technology Protection

As the pressure on “going green” increases internationally, eyes are turned to the protection of intellectual property and its mechanisms and particularly the question as to whether the World Trade Organization agreement on Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) should include special flexibilities for access and dissemination of environmental sound technologies such as they occur […]

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Posted in Editorial, IPStell, Patents Tagged access, clean, energy, green, patent, power, protection, renewable, technology

Friend or Foe? – Publicly Funded IP

The introduction of the new IPR from Publicly Funded Research and Development Act is a significant milestone in empowering local universities in their negotiations with industry partners around research funding and managing the results flowing out of such research.  The importance and value of intellectual property, which until recently was a vague term in the […]

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Posted in Copyright, Editorial, IPStell, Patents

Public Outcry Against US Bills Felt Across The Globe

Two related United States Bills were recently the topics of much controversy.  Public outcries and widespread online protests were followed by an unprecedented Internet blackout on 18 January 2012.  The Internet blackout was supported by the likes of Google, Facebook, Reddit and Wikipedia to name but a few.  The blackout was not only supported by the Internet […]

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Posted in Copyright, Editorial, IPStell, Patents, Trade Marks Tagged Bill, PIPA, SOPA, USA
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