Online Trademark Registration

FOR THOSE of you who run your own business, whether you are aware of it or not, copyrights are a primary mechanism to protect your intellectual property. For example, whether you are writing a blog post, designing a logo, writing the source code of a computer program, or creating a piece of music, all these works are subject to a copyright. A copyright does not need to be registered in South Africa, but arises automatically upon its creation, preventing others from copying the contents of what you’ve created. Copyrights can provide a very useful means to ensure that others don’t unlawfully compete with you, and can also be licensed for royalties. With the plethora of technological developments of the past decade or more, copyright legislation is fundamentally in need of an update. The 2017 Copyright Amendment Bill recently published by the Department of Trade and Industry for comment, has been widely criticised. We’ve set out some of the proposed amendments that we believe to be...

Trademark registration from Legal Legends helps establish ownership and protect brand of an entity. A trademark is a visual symbol, which may be a word, name, device, label or numerals used by a business to distinguish it goods or services from other similar goods or services originating from a different business. Register your brand and Logo in South Africa with the Online trademark registration service from Legal Legends.

If you have no idea whether your #trademark may be available for registration, why not try out our free basic trademark registration search to give you some idea of whether it may be available. Once we received your request, we’ll conduct the free basic trademark search, and email you our findings within 1 working hour! Req uest a Free Basic Search Now!

Are you looking for Online Trademark Registration for your business? Register your brand and Logo in South Africa with the trademark registration service from Legal Legends. Trademark Registry gives the protection to the brand name with the logo in their respective trademark class. Legal Legends is the leading online legal service provider company in SA.  To get any type of legal services from us, just visit our official website now.

DUE DILIGENCE FOR A BUSINESS ACQUISITION , MERGER OR SHARE PURCHASE R10,000. Investigate a business that you would like to invest in, acquire or merge with Our business acquisition due diligence offering aims at conducting a due diligence investigation into either: A company that you wish to purchase or investigate (known as the “Target Company”); or Your own company if another person or company wants to potentially purchase shares in your company, acquire or merge with you.

BRACE YOURSELF , this article is a thriller, if you can make it to the end. Genuinely though, corporate governance is something that is increasingly becoming relevant in every company, and ensuring that your statutory records and share registers are in order and regularly updated is essential to creating an investable or saleable company. It’s definitely not glamorous, but it is very necessary. We’ll start with some basics and continue with corporate governance tips in the issues to follow. AUTHORISED AND ISSUED SHARES Every company has an authorised share capital, which refers to the number of shares authorised and ‘created’ by the Memorandum of Incorporation (MOI). The creation of shares takes place, initially, during the registration process and is reflected on the incorporation certificate, available from the Companies and Intellectual Properties Commission (CIPC). All companies must have at least one share, and thus, at least one shareholder, in order to be validly incorp...