Nigeria IP Updates - November
IPCOM Bill . The Industrial Property Commission (IPCOM) bill. has recently passed its second reading in the Nigerian Parliament . The...
Nigeria's NAFDAC Submits proposal to Parliament Seeking Life Sentences for Convicted Counterfeit
The [Nigerian] National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) recently submitted a Bill to Parliament seeking to...
INTA Update: Breakfast Discussion on Hot Topics in Africa
Barcelona 2017: Maura Canavan of Rouse Africa moderated an interesting and lively discussion on hot IP topics in Africa yesterday...
Nigerian Registry Releases New Trade Mark Journal.
On Wednesday 3 May 2017, the Nigeria Trademark Registry released a new trademark journal, Vol 1, No. 1. 2nd May 2017. This is the first...
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...
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...
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...
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...
African Mobile Phone Brand Mi-Fone Uses Trade Mark to Stop the Sale of Xiaomi's Mi 4 in Nigeria.
In November 2015 Xiaomi, the third largest smartphone brand in the world, announced their plans to sell their flagship smartphones in...
