Hi Wesley - you can register software with the Copyright Board under Copyright Act 2001. However under Kenya law software IPR automatically rests with the developer. If the developer is employed to develop then it automatically rests with the employer. Therefore registration is just an additional option to enhance your protection. Waudo On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:46:59 -0700 (PDT), "wesley kiriinya" <kiriinya2000 @yahoo.com> said: Last time I was at KIPI, around 2006, I was told it was not possible to do software patents yet. Does anyone know the current status? At least 1 positive thing about such patents is they might be used as some form of security for finance. --- On Wed, 6/25/08, Brian Longwe <blongwe@gmail.com> wrote: From: Brian Longwe <blongwe@gmail.com> Subject: [kictanet] Kenya embarks on exercise to protect Intellectual Property - will this help our jeune entrepreneurs? To: kiriinya2000@yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 1:02 AM The penny has finally dropped. After the country's huge loss of revenue due to Japanese patenting of Kenya's traditional 'kiondo' and the near loss of the traditional 'kikoy' patent to a shrewd Kenyan living in the UK, the Kenya Intellectual Property Institute (KIPI) has now embarked on a process to take stock of traditional knowledge and artifacts and determine those that need protection through patent. [Full article at] [1]http://mashilingi.blogspot.com/2008/06/kenya-embarks-on-exerci se-to-protect.html -- Brian Munyao Longwe e-mail: [2]blongwe@gmail.com cell: + 254 722 518 744 blog : [3]http://zinjlog.blogspot.com meta-blog: [4]http://mashilingi.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet This message was sent to: kiriinya2000@yahoo.com Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/kiriinya2000%40yahoo .com References 1. http://mashilingi.blogspot.com/2008/06/kenya-embarks-on-exercise-to-protect.... 2. mailto:blongwe@gmail.com 3. http://zinjlog.blogspot.com/ 4. http://mashilingi.blogspot.com/ People make a plan work, a plan alone seldom makes people work (Confucius).