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Full Stop Ahead: Public interest in blocking digital content

It makes for the perfect ideological storm when IP law and ICT law meet and the right to freedom of expression stands in the way. Capitalist and socialist, activist and pacifist, pragmatist and idealist: differing legal experts abound in the battle for, or against, IP rights in the digital environment. Two recent developments which illustrate […]

Posted in Copyright, IPStell, Trade Marks Tagged block, blocking, content, Copyright, digital, expression, freedom, geo-blocking, piracy, policy, public, public interest, rights, speech, technology, website

IP Public Lecture – Hacking Back and Hot Pursuit

THIS EVENT IS NOW CLOSED Please contact us for a transcript of the lecture. The Chair of Intellectual Property Law will present its annual public lecture on 15 April 2014 with Dr Frederick Mostert, Chief Legal Counsel for the Richemont Group of companies which include Cartier, Montblanc, Alfred Dunhill and Van Cleef & Arpels. The topic of Dr […]

Posted in Events, Publications Tagged counterfeit, frederick, lecture, mostert, public, trade mark, tradekey

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 […]

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

Public Health Sector and the South African National Policy on Intellectual Property

The publication of the South African National Policy on intellectual property (SANIPP) in September 2013 has opened a proverbial can of worms and the Pharmaceutical industry is up in arms. The SANIPP proposes the introduction of stronger IP rights through the introduction of, amongst others, pre-and post-grant opposition proceedings, and makes reference to the introduction […]

Posted in IPStell, Patents Tagged DNPIP, Draft National Policy, health, intellectual property, patent, Pharmaceutical, public
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