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...
Tunisia Ratifies the Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances
Tunisia, which was one of the countries that signed the Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances when it was adopted on 26 June 2012,...
Re-submission of Revamped Nigerian IPCom Bill likely to happen before the end of the year.
The Intellectual Property Lawyers Association of Nigeria (IPLAN) and other stakeholders have been working on presenting a revamped...
Marks Designating Botswana under the Madrid System Published
The Registrar of the Botswana Trade Mark Office has commenced the arduous task of publishing the marks filed and designated to Botswana...
Nigerian IP Unit Registrar Recalled
On Tuesday, 21 June 2016, Mrs Adebola Adegoke was appointed by the Federal Ministry of Justice of Nigeria as the head the Commercial Law...
INTA comes to Africa!
"if the mountain won't come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain" This year the International Trade Mark Association (INTA) will...
New countries posed to join ARIPO for trade marks
Mozambique and Zambia are expected to accede to the Banjul Protocol, the international treaty making provision for the registration of...
Plant breeders’ rights in Kenya
Kenya is estimated to have a population of approximately 40 million people, of which an estimated 75% make their living from the...
Rouse Africa Visits OAPI.
Representatives of Rouse Africa, Maura Canavan and Claire Brown visited the OAPI headquarters office in Yaounde, Cameroon last month....
Rwanda Makes Changes to its IP Laws
On 20th April the Rwandan government released a special gazette notice setting out recently promulgated laws. The 92 page document...
