August 4, 2026
KFC, Domino’s, and Mr Price all operate in Kenya as franchises, and the local franchise sector has grown well beyond these familiar international names. What surprises […]
August 4, 2026
A manufacturer’s formulation, a production line’s calibration settings, a supplier list built over a decade: none of this is patentable, none of it is registrable, and […]
August 4, 2026
A football club’s badge, a federation’s mascot, a kit sponsor’s logo placement: these are commercial assets long before they are legal ones, and Kenyan clubs and […]
July 29, 2026
Broadcasting and neighbouring rights in Kenya’s music sector have been governed, in practice, by a collective management landscape that has been anything but stable, and the […]
July 29, 2026
Counterfeit medicines in Kenya are policed by two separate agencies whose mandates overlap rather than divide cleanly, and a third agency is now waiting in the […]
July 29, 2026
Patent protection for pharmaceuticals rests on ordinary Industrial Property Act rules in Kenya, and that word “ordinary” matters more than it might seem. Kenya has deliberately […]
July 28, 2026
IP asset registers on Kenyan cap tables rarely get the same scrutiny as the equity numbers themselves, until a venture investor’s diligence team starts asking questions […]
July 28, 2026
Open-source and SaaS licensing risk catches Kenyan tech startups less often through deliberate corner-cutting than through simple inattention: a developer pulls in a permissively-licensed library, then […]
July 28, 2026
Who owns what an AI tool generates is no longer a hypothetical question under Kenyan law. Kenya’s Copyright Tribunal answered a version of it directly, within […]
