Overview
In the modern digital economy, a corporation’s intangible assets, its brands, proprietary technologies, creative works, and trade secrets, frequently exceed the value of its physical property. Intellectual Property (IP) law provides the legal armor necessary to capture, commercialize, and defend these critical innovation assets.
With the explosive growth of fintech, digital media, and regional e-commerce across Africa, IP exposure has accelerated dramatically. Businesses require comprehensive legal strategies that span registration, portfolio management, licensing, and aggressive enforcement to counter the rising tides of corporate espionage, digital piracy, and counterfeiting.
- Copyright: The legal protection and enforcement of exclusive economic and moral rights over original software code, literary works, digital media, artistic designs, and architectural blueprints.
- IP Litigation: High-stakes courtroom and tribunal enforcement actions initiated to halt trademark infringements, patent violations, trade secret thefts, and counterfeit distribution rings.
- Trade Marks: The statutory registration, brand management, and multi-jurisdictional protection of distinct corporate names, logos, slogans, and product packaging configurations.
Select Experience
We protect, enforce, and commercialise intellectual property rights across industries. Our IP team handles trademark registration, plant breeders’ rights, licensing, assignments, opposition proceedings, and IP-driven litigation.
- Providing specialist intellectual property advice in an investor-state dispute involving claims of copyright infringement of a Client’s proprietary software by a national Government.
- Providing specialist intellectual property support in defending an arbitration claim alleging copyright infringement against our Client, a multinational publicly listed foreign‑based company.
- Acting for a leading international pharmaceutical company concerning a trademark registration dispute concerning pharmaceutical products valued at over USD 17 million (KES 2 billion).
- Acting for an international IT firm in a copyright dispute against a Kenyan media company and a major telecom.
- Securing trademark portfolios across East Africa for a luxury safari operator.
- Managing trademark transfers and legacy trademark issues for a top Kenyan bank post-merger.
- Handling complex Plant Breeders Rights registrations for global Dutch and Japanese horticulture leaders.
- Registering industrial designs for a company in the manufacturing sector.
- Acting for an agro export company in an industrial design dispute with a global footprint.
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