Tag: Africa

On the African Continental Free Trade Area and More: An Interview with Professor James Gathii (Part I)

13 March, 2019 Interview Series

In this interview, Professor James Gathii, Professor of Law and Wing-Tat Lee Chair in International Law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, discusses the African Continental Free Trade …

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Access and Benefit sharing, Farmers’ Rights and Plant Breeders’ Rights: Reflections on the African Model Law

28 February, 2019 Food & Agriculture, Intellectual Property

Titilayo Adebola Abstract This article discusses the protection of new plant varieties in Africa and the African Model Law through the lens of its key protagonist, Professor Johnson Ekpere. …

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WIPO Conference ‘Respect for IP: Growing from the Tip of Africa’

26 March, 2018 Events

This conference will foster dialogue on building respect for intellectual property (IP), with the aim of supporting a balanced IP enforcement system through international cooperation. More than 600 participants …

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Geographical Indications are a curious item amongst that disparate bundle of legal exclusionary rights known as intellectual property. Not only do they have nothing to do with innovation, originality, or for that matter anything at all that is shiny and new; on the contrary, they counter innovation by carving out a space in the marketplace for venerable old products made- in large part- in old ways.

Graham Dutfield. Foreword: Place Branding Experiences: Perspectives from Intellectual Property Owners, Users and Lawyers.