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All offers are not-binding and without obligation. Parts of the pages or the complete publication including all offers and information might be extended, changed or partly or completely deleted by the author without separate announcement.

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The author is not responsible for any contents linked or referred to from his pages - unless he has full knowledge of illegal contents and would be able to prevent the visitors of his site from viewing those pages. If any damage occurs by the use of information presented there, only the author of the respective pages might be liable, not the one who has linked to these pages. Furthermore, the author is not liable for any postings or messages published by users of discussion boards, guestbooks or mailing lists provided on his page.

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The copyright for any material created by the author is reserved. Any duplication or use of objects such as diagrams, sounds or texts in other electronic or printed publications is not permitted without the author's agreement.

Trademarks are protected under the common law. The delict of unlawful competition is derived from the common law and deals with many matters in trademark law. The general remedy under unlawful competition is to compensate a party for damage caused by another’s intentionally wrongful act. This includes the act of passing off, where a trader misrepresents its business or product as that of or associated with that of another, resulting in a reasonable likelihood of confusion among the public. The proprietary right protected in a passing-off action is the reputation of a mark, get-up or trade dress, which forms part of the goodwill of the business or product.

Section 35 of the Trademarks Act affords protection to well-known marks under the Paris Convention. It allows for infringement actions against the use of well-known and unregistered trademarks. Provision is also made for opposition in similar circumstances under Section 10(6). Well-known marks are afforded protection regardless of whether the party claiming entitlement to the well-known mark carries on business or has any goodwill in South Africa.

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