Intellectual Property
Registering, protecting and enforcing trade marks, patents, copyright and industrial designs in Kenya, through KIPI, KECOBO and the courts.

Training AI on Copyrighted Works: Text and Data Mining Risk Under Kenyan Law
Training AI on copyrighted works raises a question that Kenyan law does not answer directly. The Copyright Act, as consolidated on Kenya Law, has…
29 Sep 2026, 4 min readRead the article
IP in Liquidation: What Happens to Trademarks, Patents and Licences When a Company Fails
29 Sep 2026, 5 min read
IP as Loan Security: Charging Trademarks, Patents and Copyright to a Kenyan Lender
29 Sep 2026, 5 min read
IP Assignment Tax: Stamp Duty, Capital Gains and Withholding on Transfers of Intellectual Property
29 Sep 2026, 6 min read
Hotel Management Agreements: Brand Licences, Fees and Withholding Tax for Foreign Operators
29 Sep 2026, 5 min read
Parallel Imports and Exhaustion of Rights: What Foreign Brand Owners Can and Cannot Stop
29 Sep 2026, 5 min read
Patent Annuities at KIPI: Due Dates, Surcharges and Restoring a Lapsed Patent
29 Sep 2026, 6 min read
Company Name Reservation Is Not Trademark Protection: BRS Approval Versus KIPI Registration
29 Sep 2026, 5 min read
Trademark Clearance at KIPI: Preliminary Advice, Register Searches and Classification
29 Sep 2026, 5 min read
Trademark Change of Name and Address at KIPI: Recording Ownership Changes and Partial Surrender
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