Area of practice

Intellectual Property & Data Protection

Our Intellectual Property and Data Protection team provides strategic and practical advice to help businesses protect their innovations, commercialise valuable assets and use personal data responsibly. We advise clients on the registration, licensing, transfer and enforcement of intellectual property rights, as well as privacy, cybersecurity and data-governance requirements in Zambia. By understanding each client’s business, technology and commercial priorities, we develop tailored strategies that protect value, manage regulatory risk and maintain stakeholder trust.

Experience

  • Trade mark registration and portfolio management
  • Patent protection and advisory
  • Copyright protection
  • Industrial design registration
  • Brand-protection strategies
  • Intellectual property audits and due diligence
  • Intellectual property licensing
  • Technology-transfer agreements
  • Franchising agreements
  • Research and development agreements
  • Intellectual property commercialisation
  • Intellectual property aspects of corporate transactions
  • Confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements
  • Trade secrets and confidential information
  • Intellectual property infringement and enforcement
  • Opposition and cancellation proceedings
  • Counterfeit goods and anti-piracy measures
  • Intellectual property disputes and litigation
  • Data-protection compliance
  • Privacy policies and notices
  • Data-processing and data-sharing agreements
  • Employee data protection
  • Data-subject access requests
  • Cross-border data transfers
  • Data-protection impact assessments
  • Cybersecurity governance and risk management
  • Personal-data breach response
  • Regulatory investigations and enforcement
  • Direct marketing and electronic communications
  • Website, cookie and digital-platform compliance
  • Technology procurement and outsourcing
  • Artificial intelligence, data and emerging-technology advisory

Common sectors

  • Technology and software
  • Telecommunications
  • Media and entertainment
  • Financial services and fintech
  • Healthcare and life sciences
  • Retail and consumer goods
  • Manufacturing
  • Mining and natural resources
  • Energy and infrastructure
  • Agriculture and agribusiness
  • Education and research
  • Hospitality and tourism
  • Professional services
  • Public sector and regulated industries

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