[kictanet] Kenya embarks on exercise to protect Intellectual Property - will this help our jeune entrepreneurs?

[waudo siganga]

Hi Wesley - you can register software with the Copyright Board
under Copyright Act 2001. However under Kenya law software IPR
automatically rests with the developer. If the developer is
employed to develop then it automatically rests with the
employer. Therefore registration is just an additional option to
enhance your protection.

Waudo


On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:46:59 -0700 (PDT), "wesley kiriinya" <kiriinya2000
@yahoo.com> said:

 Last time I was at KIPI, around 2006, I was told it was not
 possible to do software patents yet. Does anyone know the current
 status?
 At least 1 positive thing about such patents is they might be
 used as some form of security for finance.
 --- On Wed, 6/25/08, Brian Longwe <blongwe at gmail.com> wrote:

   From: Brian Longwe <blongwe at gmail.com>
   Subject: [kictanet] Kenya embarks on exercise to protect
   Intellectual Property - will this help our jeune
   entrepreneurs?
   To: kiriinya2000 at yahoo.com
   Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions"
   <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
   Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 1:02 AM

 The penny has finally dropped. After the country's huge loss of
 revenue due to Japanese patenting of Kenya's traditional 'kiondo'
 and the near loss of the traditional 'kikoy' patent to a shrewd
 Kenyan living in the UK, the Kenya Intellectual Property
 Institute (KIPI) has now embarked on a process to take stock of
 traditional knowledge and artifacts and determine those that need
 protection through patent.
 [Full article at]
 [1]http://mashilingi.blogspot.com/2008/06/kenya-embarks-on-exerci
 se-to-protect.html
 --
 Brian Munyao Longwe
 e-mail: [2]blongwe at gmail.com
 cell: + 254 722 518 744
 blog : [3]http://zinjlog.blogspot.com
 meta-blog: [4]http://mashilingi.blogspot.com

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References

1. http://mashilingi.blogspot.com/2008/06/kenya-embarks-on-exercise-to-protect.html
2. mailto:blongwe at gmail.com
3. http://zinjlog.blogspot.com/
4. http://mashilingi.blogspot.com/
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