This is the first book providing a detailed overview of the law and practice in relation to intellectual property rights enforcement in all 54 African countries. It lays out how trade mark, copyright and patent owners can enforce their rights in Africa through the civil and criminal courts, and at the borders through customs.
This is the first book providing a detailed overview of the law and practice in relation to intellectual property rights enforcement in all 54 African countries. It lays out how trade mark, copyright and patent owners can enforce their rights in Africa through the civil and criminal courts, and at the borders through customs.
Marius Schneider is an attorney-at-law at the Brussels bar and a legal adviser in Mauritius. Marius is the Founder and Director of IPvocate Africa Legal Advisers (www.ipvocateafrica.com) . He has more than twenty years experience in the field of IP, of which more than fifteen years of protecting, managing, and enforcing IP rights in Africa. Vanessa Ferguson is a Brand Protection & Anti-Counterfeiting Specialist at Ferguson Attorneys, a South African IP specialist law firm (www.ferguson-ip.com). Vanessa has more than twenty years experience in IP and anti-counterfeiting. Her practice covers cross-border protection and enforcement of IP rights in Africa.
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1.: Introduction- fakes are a real problem in Africa 2.: ARIPO 3.: OAPI 4.: Algeria 5.: Angola 6.: Benin 7.: Botswana 8.: Burkina Faso 9.: Burundi 10.: Cameroon 11.: Cape Verde 12.: Central African Republic 13.: Chad 14.: Comoros 15.: Congo (Republic of) 16.: Djibouti 17.: Democratic Republic of the Congo 18.: Egypt 19.: Equatorial Guinea 20.: Eritrea 21.: Eswatini 22.: Ethiopia 23.: Gabon 24.: Gambia (The) 25.: Ghana 26.: Guinea 27.: Guinea-Bissau 28.: Kenya 29.: Ivory Coast 30.: Kenya 31.: Lesotho 32.: Liberia 33.: Libya 34.: Madagascar 35.: Malawi 36.: Mali 37.: Mauritania 38.: Mauritius 39.: Morocco 40.: Mozambique 41.: Namibia 42.: Niger 43.: Rwanda 44.: São Tomé and Principe 45.: Senegal 46.: Seychelles 47.: Sierra Leone 48.: Somalia (including Somaliland) 49.: South Africa 50.: South Sudan 51.: Sudan 52.: Tanzania (Mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar) 53.: Togo 54.: Tunisia 55.: Uganda 56.: Zambia 57.: Zimbabwe
