1. Legal challenges facing franchising in Kenya
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2. Introduction
This presentation is a general overview of the Kenyan laws that relate to Franchising and Licensing agreements.
Anthony Okulo: Advocate High Court of Kenya
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3. Topics of Discussion Innovation process Franchising & Licensing
Transfer of technology
Trademarks Act (Cap 506)
Copyright Act 2001
Traditional knowledge
Ownership
Originality
Infringement
Remedies or Relief
Recommendations
Conclusion
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4. Innovation process IP database INNOVATION 30/11/2018 Anthony Okulo
PROTECTION
(REGISTRATION)
IP database
COMMERCIALISATION
PROTECTION AGAINST INFRINGEMENT
TRANSFER / LICENSING
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5. Franchising and licensing
Franchise: the sole right granted by the owner of a trademark to engage in business or to sell goods or services in a certain area.
License: revocable permission to commit an act that would otherwise be unlawful
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6. Transfer of technology
Technology: the systematic knowledge for the manufacture of a product, the application of a process or the rendering of a service.
Technology can be transferred by an assignment or license
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7. Trademarks Act (Cap 506)
Trademark: a mark or sign used in relation to goods and services for the purpose of indicating a connection in the course of trade between the goods or services and the registered owner
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8. Copyright Act 2001
Copyright: a property right in an original work of authorship (literary, musical, artistic, photographic or audiovisual) fixed in any tangible medium of expression giving the holder the exclusive right to reproduce, adapt, distribute, perform or display the work
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11. Traditional knowledge
WIPO
Tradition based literary, artistic or scientific works; performances; inventions; scientific discoveries; designs; marks; names; symbols; undisclosed information; and all other tradition based innovations and creations resulting from intellectual activity.
Tradition based: knowledge transmitted from generation to generation
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12. Folklore
Copyright Act: folklore is literary, musical or artistic work presumed to have been created within Kenya by an unidentified author which has been passed on form generation to generation and constitutes a basic element of traditional heritage
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13. Ownership
Trademarks, patents, utility models must be registered. Registration certificate is poof of ownership
Copyright: the owner is the person who first makes or creates the work
TK: passed on from generation to generation and collectively owned
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14. Originality
Trademarks: must relate to a particular class of goods and services e.g.. Elephant head
Copyright: sufficient effort expended on the work to give it an original character. Work must be fixed or reduced to material form
Jewani –v- Going out magazine & another [2002] 1 KLR proof of sufficient work by way of photography, development, design , artwork, colour separation and publication confer on the works an original character
TK: constantly evolving in response to changing environment
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15. Infringement Copyright
Economic rights: exclusive rights which allow the owner of the rights to derive financial reward from the use of his/her works
Moral rights: right to claim authorship of the work and to object to any mutilation of or derogatory action in relation to the work.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 27 : ‘ everyone has the right to protection of the moral and material interests resulting from scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author
TK: unauthorised reproduction [ ownership??]
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16. Infringement
Designers Guild –v- Russell Williams (H.L.) [2001] ALL ER 701: the owner complains that the defendant has copied all or a substantial part of the copyright work. the reproduction may be exact or it may introduce deliberate variations
Alternative Media Ltd –v- Safaricom Ltd HCC 263 of 2004 infringement of copyright does not mean reproduction in its original form it includes the translation or adaptation of original work. innocent infringement is no defence as copyright is a proprietary right.
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17. Remedies or Relief Damages Injunctions Accounts Delivery Destruction
Royalties
Inquiry
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18. Recommendations Trade Practices Act
Specialist IP Magistrates and Judges
Know your IP rights
Enforce your IP rights
Education on different forms of IP rights (WIPO Academy)
IP inspectors
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19. Conclusion
Kenya is ready for local and international franchising the business sector must take advantage of the opportunity
University of London Press Ltd –v- University Tutorial Press Ltd [1916] 2 CH 609 : ‘… there remains the rough practical test that what is worth copying is worth protecting..’
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