INSIGHTS
As intellectual property practitioners, we are often challenged that the public does not relate to the importance of having Intellectual property rights. For instance, whenever we converse with our colleagues in the legal profession, they ask why we are protecting big corporations at the expense of small traders. That Enforcing Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) is
From January 2023, Meta Platform Inc. Company shall be requiring all entrepreneurs using the Platform to advertise or sell their products to automatically offer their consent for sharing of their information placed on its platform to a governmental entity if it believes that the disclosure would assist a lawful Investigation. Meta Platform Inc. owns
Anti-Counterfeit Authority(ACA) has rolled out Intellectual Property Rights(IPR) Recordation and Admission of IPR Agents. The service will be offered through an online platform called Anti-Counterfeit Authority Integrated Management System which shall process recordal applications, change of IPR ownership, cancellation of recordation and maintenance of IPR recordal database. Notably, raw materials used to manufacture goods are
On 4th April 2022, The Copyright(Amendment) Bill,2021 was signed into law. Amongst the notable changes made by the new Copyright law is the introduction of a new formula in the sharing of revenues collected from ring back tunes. It provides under section 30(c) that premium rate service provider shall be entitled to 8.5%; telecommunication operator