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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Zanzibar signs into law new IP Regulations
Zanzibar (a grouping of islands off the East African coast), as a semi-autonomous part of Tanzania, has recently promulgated the Zanzibar...
Ghana Partners with Switzerland to Strengthen its Intellectual Property System.
In a bid to improve its intellectual property (IP) system, the Ghanaian government in a joint venture with Switzerland recently launched...
IP Crime Unit in Zambia
At the 10th Session of the WIPO Advisory Committee on Enforcement held in November 2015. The deputy Commissioner of the Zambia Police...
Invalidation and Opposition Hearings Temporarily Suspended in Botswana
Invalidation and opposition hearings for trade marks have been temporarily suspended in Botswana due to a human resource shortaged in the...
New IP Code for Mozambique
On December 31st the official gazette of Mozambique published the decree of the Council of Ministers approving a new intellectual...
