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  Understanding Trademark Renewal in South Africa Trademark renewal is a crucial step in safeguarding your brand identity and intellectual property rights. In South Africa, trademarks have a lifespan of ten years, after which they must be renewed to maintain their validity. Failure to renew your trademark can have severe consequences, including the loss of exclusive rights to your brand. To ensure a smooth renewal process, it's essential to understand the basics. This involves knowing when your trademark is due for renewal, the required documentation, and the applicable fees. Additionally, being aware of the potential challenges and deadlines is crucial to avoiding costly mistakes. By familiarizing yourself with the trademark renewal process, you can protect your brand's value and prevent unauthorized use of your intellectual property. The Importance of Timely Trademark Renewal Timely Trademark Renewal South Africa is essential for safeguarding your brand's intellectual pr...

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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. Sale of Shares Agreement For whatever reason you may need to sell shares in your company? Maybe you have an investor wishing to come on board, have a new shareholder or two, or simply want to get the heck out of the company.  Whatever the reason, Legal Legends has you covered! Our template allows for an inexpensive way in which almost all aspects of the sale of shares, by providing a unique table at the end which allows you to select which parts of the agreement you would like to inc...

GETTING YOUR START-UP off the ground will be one of the hardest things you ever do. All the lingo about being nimble, agile and lean certainly holds water, but when executed too casually, could scupper your venture by creating unintended legal loopholes that come back to bite you many months, or years later. To equip your start-up for the unforgiving world of business, let’s explore five common legal mistakes start-ups tend to make when launching their business. To download the PDF article, click here . NAIL DOWN YOUR FOUNDING DOCUMENTS As early as possible, you need to secure all founding documents and agreements to govern the relationship between the company and its shareholders and directors. The most important of these documents are the Shareholders Agreement and Memorandum of Incorporation. When your start-up is making the big moola — which we all hope it does — issues between shareholders become very real. Ensuring that you have the right mechanisms in place to s...

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...

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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...