

Ghana IP Registry Closed Due to Strike Action (update)
The Ghana Intellectual Property Registry staff as members of the Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOSSAG) began a nationwide...

Update on Nigerian Copyright Commission Raids
The Nigeria Communication Commission in the first half of the 2016 raided various warehouses in the north central, South East and south...


Your Caller Tune? My Copyright.....Tanzanian Court Awards Landmark Damages for Copyright Infringemen
East African copyright law has recently risen to the fore of IP rights enforcement with several recent successful enforcement decisions...

Nigeria and Algeria to host Africa's first regional WIPO office
The bid to host the first Africa Regional Office of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), has been won by Nigeria and...


Nigeria tops the list of clients most filed-in Jurisdiction in Africa 2016.
Nigeria is consistently at the top of our list of most filed-in jurisdictions for our clients filing in Africa as it hosts one of the...


MTN pays out Artist for unauthorized use of a sound recording as ring back tunes.
MTN, a mobile telecom service provider in Nigeria in a spate of bad luck finds itself in court for the third time this year for IP...