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  • Kenya Data Protection: New mandatory registration for businesses

    Kenya Data Protection: New mandatory registration for businesses

    The publication in the Kenya Gazette of the Data Protection (Registration of Data Controllers and Data Processors) Regulations 2021 (via Legal Notice no. 265) implemented section 18 of the Data Protection Act 2019 which provides for mandatory registration of data controllers and processors by the Data Protection Commissioner, DPC. Mandatory registration will now commence on…

  • Our contribution to Country Index

    Our contribution to Country Index

    Schutz Marken Dienst GmbH (SMD) Group’s Country Index provides trademark related details for almost every country in the world. The Country Index provides information such as general trade mark regulations, trademark use requirements, grace period for trademark renewals, and trademark licensing. Read our contribution to the Country Index on Kenya here

  • Gardaland Sea Life

  • Newly reintroduced capital gains on IP in Kenya

    http://afro-ip.blogspot.com/2014/09/cgt-resurrected-in-kenya-but-effect-on.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Afro-ip+%28Afro-IP%29

  • Protectionist legislation and its impact on a country’s economy

    I was startled to read an article published in the BD Africa of 12th August 2014 by l(online version at http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Opinion-and-Analysis/Abolish-restrictions-on-ownership-of-firms-by-foreign-investors-/-/539548/2416964/-/iglecdz/-/index.html) Mr Miano’s views can be summarised by his closing sentence:”Legal restrictions are just another form of unnecessary red tape. They inhibit the flow of foreign direct investments”. I disagree with learned counsel. Legal restrictions…

  • Immortality: The internet, privacy and the after-life

    I recently read an English translation (with Google translate) of an interesting article (http://www.marketingfacts.nl/berichten/20110722_van_leven_ga_je_niet_meer_dood?sqr=van%20leven%20ga%20je%20niet%20meer%20dood&) by Erik van der Dussen. No its not because his name is Dutch and I am suspecting-despite my minimalist affection for football- the Dutch will take the Bola, but because I was researching on some ‘cloud’ issues. The article got me…

  • Kenyan ads and the World Cup

    As we get closer to the Brazil 2014 World Cup, there is an increasing number of advertisements on radio, television, newspapers and the internet which make reference to the World Cup. Of course, many of these advertisements have absolutely nothing to do with promoting the FIFA World Cup as such; rather, they are adverts that promote products or services…

  • Of Copyright and Weddings: Not-so-strange bed fellows

    I could not afford not to smile when I came across a news item concerning a battle of sorts between ‘owners’ or producers of the wedding shows ‘Samantha Bridal’ and ‘Baileys Weddings’ both currently aired at least weekly in Kenya’s TV stations. Not that I am one to smile at ladies in wedding gowns battling it…

  • Kenya to receive specific fees from international trade mark registrations

    On 12th of March this year, Kenya, a member of the Madrid Union, having signed and acceded to both the Madrid Agreement (here http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/wipo_treaties/text.jsp?file_id=283530) and the Protocol to the Agreement (here http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/wipo_treaties/text.jsp?file_id=283484) concerning the international registration of trade marks via the WIPO administered ‘Madrid System’, notified WIPO (aka the International Bureau) of its intention to…