Zambia’s New Trade Marks Act Takes Effect: Why Foreign Brand Owners Need to Rethink Filing Strategy
Zambia’s Trade Marks Act No. 11 of 2023 moved into full operation at the end of December 2025 following Statutory Instrument No. 86 of 2025, displacing the 1958 regime that had long shaped filings and enforcement. For brand owners, the bigger story is not simply that a new law is now in force, but that Zambia’s trade mark system is being recast in a language far more familiar to modern cross-border practice.Service marks, well-known marks, geographical indications, Madrid-related provisions, electronic service, multi-class filing and division now sit within the same statutory...