Category: Intellectual Property
Titilayo Adebola and Daniele Manzella Abstract This chapter considers the digital sequence information (DSI) debates from an African perspective. The chapter reviews regional instruments and the role that the …
Titilayo Adebola Introduction This article argues that geographical indication (GI) ecosystems in Africa will thrive through the promotion of inclusive, sustainable and effective (ISE) regimes. As a distinct category …
Plant Variety Protection Act 2021. See sample direct excerpts below. Explanatory Memorandum This Act protects plant varieties, encourages investment in plant breeding and crop variety development and establishes a …
Titilayo Adebola Abstract This article breaks new ground by advancing the first comprehensive mapping and analysis of the fragmented intellectual property (IP) architecture in Africa in light of the …
Precious Adebanjo On 21 December 2020, Flora IP held its end of the year event titled “Nigerian Food, Photography and Law.” The discussions on this topic raised interesting questions …
Damilola Babade See Part I of this essay here. What is Traceability? According to the International Organisation for Standardisation – ISO 8402 (1994) standards, “Traceability is the aptitude to …
Damilola Babade No sooner had stakeholders celebrated the introduction and acceptance of Geographical Indications (GI) as an intellectual property right than free riders, product imitators, and unfair competitors began …
Precious Adebanjo Agriculture is significant to economies around the world. It accounted for about 27 per cent of the world’s total employment in 2019 and contributed 23.3 per cent to the …
By Precious Adebanjo* The CGIAR is an international network of 15 research centers committed to global food security through reducing poverty, enhancing food and nutrition security, and improving natural …
By Dr Titilayo Adebola. Originally published by Afronomicslaw.org on 10 April 2020. Until the middle of 2017, Nigeria appeared impervious to the increasing infiltration of the International Convention for …