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The Ministry of Interior in Kenya issued directives on 6 March 2024, under the Preservation of Public Security Act to combat the production and sale of illicit alcohol and psychotropic substances abuse.
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With effect from 26 January 2024, Mr John Onyango, was appointed as the new Managing Director of KIPI for a 3 year term.
Inventa
In simple terms, a counterfeit is a product that imitates the genuine one and constitutes an infringement of IP rights.
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The Kenya Anti-Counterfeit Authority has announced the appointment of Dr. Mbugua Njoroge as the new Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer. The appointment took effect on 1 August 2022.
Adams & Adams
Kenya has taken recent measures regarding anti-counterfeiting to be implemented by the Anti-Counterfeiting Authority (ACA).
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On 17 June 2022, a Nairobi City Court found businesswoman Ms. Rose Nyambura guilty for importing counterfeit circuit breakers into the country. Hon. G. Onsaringo ordered the defendant to pay a fine...
Smit & Van Wyk
The Anti-Counterfeit (Recordation) Regulations and the Anti-Counterfeit (Amendment) Regulations, 2021...
Adams & Adams
Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta signed the 2021 Copyright Amendment Act into law on 4 April 2022. It introduces a new royalty sharing formula which entitles musicians and performing...
Adams & Adams
The Anti-Counterfeit Authority ("ACA") launched the Anti-Counterfeit Authority Integrated Management System ("AIMS") on 28 February 2022 and, thereafter, adopted a three (3) phased out implementation approach.
Novagraaf Group
As part of its initiative to curb illicit trade in counterfeit goods, the Kenyan government has introduced the compulsory recordation of IP rights at the Kenyan Anti-Counterfeit Authority.
Adams & Adams
Kenya's Anti-Counterfeit Authority has made it compulsory to record IP rights on all imported goods (not services) in Kenya by no later than 1 July 2022.
ENS
In 2008, the assent of the Anti-Counterfeit Act by the then president, the late Mwai Kibaki, put counterfeiters on notice that there was a new sheriff in town: the Anti-Counterfeit Authority...
Adams & Adams
On 23 February 2022, the Anti-Counterfeit Authority announced that they had concluded the migration process to the Anti-Counterfeit Authority Integrated Management System ("AIMS")...
Adams & Adams
The object of the Bill is to amend the Copyright Act (hereinafter referred to as the "principal Act"), so that provision is made for a formula for sharing of revenue from...
Sidebrief Inc.
A trademark can be any word, phrase, symbol, design, or a combination of these things that identifies your goods or services.
Adams & Adams
In Kenya, copyright protection vests automatically upon the creation of a work. The registration of works is therefore not a requirement, however, the Kenya Copyright Board (KECOBO)...
ENS
ENSafrica's Mahesh Acharya joined Olebogeng Motse on the OFM Business Hour to talk about counterfeit goods in Kenya
Adams & Adams
The Anti-Counterfeit (Amendment) Regulations, 2021 (Legal Notice no. 117) and the Anti-Counterfeit (Recordation) Regulations, 2021 (Legal Notice no. 118) were jointly published by the Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Industrialization, Trade and Enterprise Development on 23rd July 2021.
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This announcement by the Kenyan Industrial Property Institute, follows an increase in the official fees applicable to official trade mark searches in Kenya.
ENS
These IP Rights include: copyright, plant breeders rights, trade marks and all rights under the Industrial Property Act.
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