South Africa has many talented designers active in the field of furniture and lighting, cutlery, crockery, textiles, jewellery and wine and product labels. South African designers and their product designs are highly regarded both locally and internationally and many of them have exhibited, and sold their products overseas. Some of the local trend setters
Copyright is a property right. The principle of any kind of property is that the owner may use it as they wish, and that nobody else can lawfully use it without their authorisation. Copyright protection affords the copyright owner certain exclusive rights which enable the copyright owner to exploit the copyright work for financial
A trade mark, generally speaking, is any mark used, or proposed to be used, to identify goods or services, and to distinguish those goods and services from similar kinds of products or marks within the industry. A ‘mark’ can be any sign that can be represented graphically, including a device, name, signature, word, letter,
A patent provides the right to exclude others from making, using, selling, offering for sale, or importing the patented invention for the term of the patent. A patent is a limited property right the government gives inventors in exchange for their agreement to share details of their inventions with the public. Like any other
