At Kenya ICT Federatiuon we are working on supporting the Local Software Industry - there is a new chapter in KIF called Kenya Software Industry Association (started 19 June 2008). On discussing how KIPI would be able to support this, we were told that software is not under their mandate. Their mandate is INDUSTRIAL goods, and INTELLECTUAL goods are protected by the Copyrights department under the Attorney General's office. In other words, in legal protection we are distinguishing hardware and software in dealing with intellectual property. Regards, Marcel Werner 2008/6/25 Brian Longwe <blongwe@gmail.com>:
The penny has finally dropped. After the country's huge loss of revenWue 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....
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