Firstly, sorry for the multiple posts.

Aaahhh you have highlighted something I wanted to clarify. I believe patents are different from copy rights and intellectual property. I know about what you've said.

From the lawyer I spoke to (and another one I heard in a T.V interview), copy rights become automatic once the person develops the product. All you have to do is put the (c) symbol on your product.

I believe:
Patents are an entire beast. Basically a patent will be requested for a particular technology and not for a product and that's why a product can be created from one or more patented technologies. When requesting for a patent a world wide investigation has to be done to make sure you are the original creator and that you didn't steal ideas from someone else, therefore patents take months or years.

I think more light needs to be shed. Any KIPI people on the list?

--- On Wed, 6/25/08, waudo siganga <emailsignet@mailcan.com> wrote:
From: waudo siganga <emailsignet@mailcan.com>
Subject: Re: [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, 12:34 PM

Re: [kictanet] Kenya embarks on exercise to protect Intellectual Property - will this help our jeune entrepreneurs?

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]
http://mashilingi.blogspot.com/2008/06/kenya-embarks-on-exercise-to-protect.html

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