July 17, 2026
IP due diligence in Kenya usually starts, reasonably enough, with a cross-border buyer or investor pulling the KIPI and Trade Marks Registry extracts and checking that […]
July 17, 2026
Enforcing a foreign judgment in Kenya is a separate legal exercise from winning one abroad, and the route available depends heavily on where the judgment came […]
July 17, 2026
Madrid trademark designations in Kenya go through a genuine substantive check, not the rubber stamp many foreign owners expect. A common assumption among foreign trademark owners […]
July 17, 2026
PCT national phase entry in Kenya is where a sound international filing strategy most often goes wrong, usually over a missed deadline rather than a substantive […]
July 17, 2026
Local agent requirements in Kenya are not uniform across IP rights, and getting them wrong is one of the most common ways a foreign filing goes […]
July 17, 2026
Protecting a brand in Kenya as a foreign trademark owner usually means being told there are three options: file directly at the Kenya Industrial Property Institute […]
July 16, 2026
The enforcement ladder Kenya offers brand owners is not a single process but a series of steps. A brand owner who discovers infringement faces an immediate […]
July 16, 2026
A distinctive bottle shape, a furniture silhouette, a patterned fabric: these are the kinds of visual, non-functional features that industrial design protection exists for, and they […]
July 16, 2026
Customs recordation Kenya requires for imported goods exists to change one basic fact about counterfeit enforcement: by the time a counterfeit shipment reaches a Kenyan retail […]
