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Patents And Copyrights: Empowering Kenya’s Digital Revolution: Kenya is quickly emerging as a center for technical innovation, thanks to numerous […]

Child Support in Kenya: What Happens When One Parent Moves Abroad? As globalization continues to shape our society, cross-border family […]

How To Lift an Agency Notice Issued by The Commissioner of Taxes An Agency Notice is a notice in writing […]

Introduction Parties to an intended marriage may enter into an agreement before their marriage to determine their property rights. Such […]

There is no limitation for the period covered in a tax investigation in cases of gross/willful, neglect, evasion or fraud […]

Family Trusts as an Alternative to Traditional Succession In our previous article, we discussed how to register a family trust. […]

Comprehensive Guide to Understanding Divorce Procedures and Legal Grounds; Divorce has become a common term in today’s society, no longer […]

To thrive in these unprecedented economic and digital times, organizations need to embrace  creativity and innovation. Through innovation an organization can achieve competitive advantage  which creates room for growth and sustainability. An organization’s innovative climate is driven  by its human resource. Employees breathe life into innovation through their knowledge, skills and  abilities; while employers are the driving force, they provide the employees with the required  environment and resources to innovate.   In Kenya, the main hindrance towards the development of new inventions is the lack of awareness  of laws and legal rights of the employees and employers related to ownership of intellectual  property of the invention. Due to this gap, innovators are exploited, this demotivates them from  actualising their creative potential, for fear that the organization or employer will take all the  credit.    In a recent South African case of Vodacom (Pty) Ltd v Makate and Another (401/2022) [2024]  ZASCA the Supreme Court ordered Vodacom to compensate Mr. Makate in billions for the ‘please  call me’ idea he invented when he was an employee at Vodacom, although the idea was wholly  operationalised by Vodacom.   Such lawsuits against employers and organizations can be prevented by implementing the rights  granted to each party under the law. This Article will discuss how the law creates a balance  between the rights of the employer and the innovator employee to ensure both benefit from the  innovation.   Innovations are governed by the Industrial Property Act, 2001 (IPA). The general rule under  […]

Political Parties Must Allow Democracy to Blossom  Through Transparent Party Primaries. The role of political parties in elections cannot be […]