Madrid is here to stay-embrace it! (Part 1)
One of the major talking points at last years INTA Building Africa with Brands conference held in Cape Town, South Africa was Madrid in...
Mozambique Now Requires Rights Holders to File a Further Declaration of Intention To Use, for Trade
The trade mark office in Mozambique has recently made it a requirement for rights holders, holding International Registrations (IR)...
Rouse Africa Attends 40th ARIPO Administrative Council Meeting in Harare Zimbabwe.
Rouse Africa's Gunther Roland and Claire Brown will be in Harare, Zimbabwe to attend the 40th session of the ARIPO Administrative...
OAPI Makes Moves to Implement Singapore Treaty.
On 19 October 2016 a meeting was held between the executive management of the OAPI Registry and its registered agents. The meeting dealt...
Two New IP Acts for Zambia
In the last few months Zambia has passed into law the Industrial Designs Act 2016 and the Traditional Knowledge, Genetic Resources and...
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...
