Dale Healy

A judgment that needed a few more minutes on the boil Soft Coffee (Pty) Ltd v Nonnas Pasta (Pty) Ltd and Others (Case No. 088838/2025, High Court of South Africa, Gauteng Division, Pretoria. Judgment delivered 22 June 2026 by Mooki J.) The recent decision in Soft Coffee v Nonnas Pasta is, in many respects, a […]

A Gauteng High Court judgment handed down on 1 June 2026 concludes that Bitcoin is both “capital” and “money” under South Africa’s Exchange Control Regulations. The capital finding is defensible. The money finding is not. And the court’s treatment of what “export” actually means on a distributed ledger leaves the most difficult question unanswered. Case […]

Aspen wins round two in trade mark battle, forcing rival Adcock to stay off shelves during appeal Pretoria High Court, 18 August 2025 The pharmaceutical industry’s latest trade mark war escalated yesterday, 18 August 2025 as Aspen Pharmacare successfully convinced the Pretoria High Court to keep competitor Adcock Ingram’s LENBUCOD product banned from the market—even […]

South Africa’s highest court has delivered a landmark ruling that authentic designer goods cannot be seized as counterfeits, even when imported without permission from local trade mark holders. The Supreme Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal by Yossi Barel, who holds the South African trade mark rights to the ENRICO COVERI brand, after he attempted […]

While President Trump and Elon Musk were going at it like Ike and Tina, something far more interesting was happening in the background. The Trump administration’s GENIUS Act isn’t just another boring government bill – it’s basically America’s official “we’re going all-in on Web3” announcement. What Is Web3? Web3 represents the next evolution of the […]

The case of Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Group & Pharmacare Limited v Adcock Ingram Healthcare (Pty) Ltd & Adcock Ingram Intellectual (Pty) Ltd, was recently heard in the High Court and judgment was delivered on 12 May 2025.  Both Aspen and Adcock are prominent pharmaceutical groups in South Africa, each with a holding company and subsidiaries […]