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A legal battle over who owns M-kopa brand is brewing between a private firm and Kenya’s leading telecommunication company, Safaricom, and its partners in the solar energy provision deal.
Mkopa Investments, established by one Patrick Kamau claims in its court papers that M-Kopa solar idea initiated by an Englishman Nick Hughes and his Canadian co-founder Jesse Moore in partnership with Safaricom was infringing upon its name, which was copyrighted in 1997.
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