You are in discussions with a potential investor, a potential joint venture partner, a licensee or a distributor of your intellectual property. Â Protecting your intellectual property is critical. Â Can you trust them? Â Will they walk away with your intellectual property? [...]
Do you have a robust intellectual property strategy? And why does it matter? Intellectual property is one of the key assets of an organisation. It is becoming of ever-increasing importance in this digital world where ideas and information can be [...]
What does "Please Call Me" mean for your organisation?  The "Please Call Me" case (Makate v Vodacom) brought the issue of who owns employee-created intellectual property sharply to the fore.  This ‘David v Goliath’ saga, which lead to a legal battle all [...]
The ‘David v Goliath’ saga of Makate v Vodacom, which proceeded all the way up to the Constitutional Court, highlighted the risks organisations face if they fail to properly address the ownership and commercialisation of potentially lucrative ideas created by their employees. Key take-away’s of Makate [...]
