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Court stops Safaricom’s MPESA Bill manager for businesses

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Last updated: 2021/03/31 at 5:47 PM
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The Industrial Property Tribunal (IPT) has stopped Safaricom PLC from using or marketing the M-PESA Bill Manager for Businesses until a case filed by Kibo Capital Group Limited is heard and determined.

MPESA Bill manager for businesses resembles Kibo Capital’s Utility Model registered in November 2017 by the Kenya Industrial Property Institute (KIPI).

#IntellectualPropertyTheftKE: The government registered & knows about Kibo Capital’s stolen Utility Model

Kibo Capital had in September 2017 presented the idea to Safaricom’s Senior Product’s Manager for M-PESA to discuss the biller and e-Recepting solutions.

IP Watch Article: Intellectual Property Theft By Corporations in Kenya

Material facts regarding the innovation by Kibo Capital were discussed but the contract never materialized only for Safaricom to implement the same idea 3 years later without involving Kibo thereby infringing on the copyright.

It is hereby ordered that pending the hearing and determination of this application inter partes, interim orders be and is hereby issued restraining the Respondents its directors, officers, their agents, servants or any of them or otherwise from using, advertising of offering services. or dealing with the Requester’s utility model’s No. 163 being an invention titled: Universally Verifiable Electronic Receipt for Mobile Money Payments in the name of Onyango Jasper Ochieng, Utility Model no.168 being and invention titled: Sales Initiation Closure Notification Generator and Recording Engine in the name of Onyango Jasper Ochieng, Utility Model No.169 being an invention titled: Biller Integration and Receipting System in the name of Kibo Capital Group Limited and Utility Model No. 195 being an invention titled: Universally Verifiable Electronic Banking Slip in the name of Onyango Jasper Ochieng. – The Court stated

The Interim orders do last up to 21st April, 2021 when the case will be heard.

Evidence: M-PESA Bill Manager is a stolen Utility Model registered under Kibo Capital Group Limited

Safaricom is supposed to respond within 7 days.

Copied from Kenyan Business Feed

Evidence: M-PESA Bill Manager is a stolen Utility Model registered under Kibo Capital Group Limited

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