Prescription is a term used to indicate that the time period to institute legal proceedings against a debtor has lapsed. It is thus not a legal term that should be easily ignored, as having your claim prescribe might mean the end of the road for any legal proceedings...

“I was interested to read about the recent “please call me” case where it was found in favour of the inventor Mr Makate against Vodacom. It got me wondering as to how I can protect my own ‘big’ idea and what exactly can be protected by law?” Big ideas are what define...