Kenyan Perspective of Canadian Supreme Court in CBC v. SODRAC
In a previous post here, there was a brief preview of a pending Supreme Court of Canada decision in the case of Canadian Broadcasting Corp....
Read MorePrior Use and Legality in Trade Mark Registration
Earlier this year, this blogger reported here this ruling: In the Matter of Trade Mark No. KE/T/2010/67586 “KENYA BOYS CHOIR” (WORDS) in Classes 16 and...
Read MoreLibraries, CIPIT and Safaricom Views on Intermediary Liability for Copyright Infringement
As many readers may know, there are currently no provisions under the Laws of Kenya that specially address the issue of intermediary liability. There are...
Read MoreRecap of 2015 4th Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest
In the midst of two decades of TRIPs and three decades of openness, 400+ delegates from over 50 countries, ranging from established academics to activists...
Read MoreRecap of the 10th WTO Ministerial Conference in Nairobi: 15th to 18th December 2015
‘The existential rationale of the WTO is irrefutable. Its centrality in international trade relations cannot be substituted. If the rules‐based multilateral trading system did not...
Read MoreBasic Economics of Copyright Infringement and Piracy in Developing Countries
By *Samuel Ugwumba The emerging concept of creative economy with its underlying ideas has arguably embraced its apogee in the publication of a new study...
Read MoreThe Law on Works Made for Hire: Riara Group of Schools v Lucas Kamau
Suppose an employee develops a work eligible for copyright- could be literary works, musical works, artistic works, audio-visual works, sound recordings or broadcasts, who owns...
Read MoreHe Who Has No Hope That He Shall Reap, Will not Take the Trouble to Sow: A Win for F. Hoffman La Roche
Without the sense of security which property gives, the land would still be uncultivated-Francois Quesnay (1694-1774) This statement without a doubt reveals the reality as...
Read MoreIs Creativity and Innovation All About Intellectual Property?
By Samuel Ugwumba* In the recently concluded ‘African Ministerial Conference: Intellectual Property for an Emerging Africa’ organized in part by WIPO (here), one cannot help...
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