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715
pages
English
Ebooks
2012
Écrit par
Adam S
Publié par
PULP (Pretoria University Law Press)
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Date de parution
01 janvier 2012
Nombre de lectures
4
EAN13
9781920538095
Langue
English
Poids de l'ouvrage
4 Mo
Publié par
Date de parution
01 janvier 2012
Nombre de lectures
4
EAN13
9781920538095
Langue
English
Poids de l'ouvrage
4 Mo
Adams & Adams
Practical Guide to
Intellectual Property in Africa
Adams & Adams Practical Guide to Intellectual Property in Africa
Published by:
Pretoria University Law Press (PULP)
The Pretoria University Law Press (PULP) is a publisher at the Faculty of Law,
University of Pretoria, South Africa. PULP endeavours to publish and make available
innovative, high-quality scholarly texts on law in Africa. PULP also publishes a series
of collections of legal documents related to public law in Africa, as well as text books
from African countries other than South Africa.
For more information on PULP, see www.pulp.up.ac.za
Printed and bound by:
ABC Press
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To order, contact:
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ISBN: 978-1-920538-09-5
THE WORLD BANK
Washington, D.C.
Adams & Adams Practical Guide to Intellectual Property in Africa forms part of the Rule of Law
in Africa Project funded by the World Bank
Adams & Adams
Practical Guide to
Intellectual Property in Africa
Compiled and authored by
Adams & Adams 2012
Editorial Committee
Esmé D. du Plessis (Managing Editor);
Simon Brown; Dario F. Tanziani (Chairman, Adams & Adams)
Adams & Adams Authors
Esmé Desiré du Plessis Gavin Salomon Kotze
BSc (Chem & Maths) BSc (Chem & Eng)
LLB Patent Attorney BProc Patent Attorney
Simon Barratt Brown Megan Moerdijk
BLC LLB Trade Mark Attorney BA LLB Trade Mark Attorney
Kelly‐Marie Thompson Jennifer Pienaar
BA LLB Trade Mark Attorney BA LLB Trade Mark Attorney
Nicolette Garnett Nthabisheng Phaswana
BA LLB Attorney LLB LLM Attorney
Pretoria University Law Press
Pretoria 2012
Table of Contents
Preface ..................................... ii Lesotho ..................................... 240
Acknowledgement ................... iv Liberia ....................................... 256
Glossary: acronyms and Libya ......................................... 272
abbreviations ......................... vi Madagascar .............................. 286
Table of appendices ................. viii Malawi ...................................... 301
Map of Africa ............................ ix Mali .......................................... 317
African Regional Intellectual Mauritania ................................ 319
Property Organisation Mauritius .................................. 321
(ARIPO) ................................... 1 Morocco ................................... 335
Algeria ...................................... 16 Mozambique ............................ 354
Angola 33 Namibia .................................... 373
Benin ........................................ 51 Niger ......................................... 391
Botswana .................................. 53 Nigeria ...................................... 393
Burkina Faso ............................. 71 Organisation Africaine de la
Burundi ..................................... 73 Propriéte Intellectuelle
Cameroon ................................. 88 (OAPI) .................................... 410
Cape Verde ............................... 90 Rwanda ..................................... 433
4 São Tomé and Principe (St Thomas Central African Republic ........... 10
Chad ......................................... 106 and Prince’s Islands) ............... 449
Comoros ................................... 108 Senegal 462
Congo, Republic of the ............. 112 Seychelles ................................. 464
Democratic Republic of Sierra Leone ............................. 477
the Congo .............................. 114 Somalia ..................................... 488
Djibouti ..................................... 128 South Africa .............................. 492
Egypt ........................................ 137 St Helena .................................. 527
Equatorial Guinea ..................... 157 Sudan ........................................ 534
Eritrea ....................................... 159 Sudan, South ............................ 550
Swaziland ................................. 552 Ethiopia .................................... 161
Gabon 179 Tanzania ................................... 567
Gambia, The ............................. 181 Togo .......................................... 601
Ghana 197 Tunisia ...................................... 604
Guinea ...................................... 214 Uganda ..................................... 621 ‐Bissau ........................... 216 Zambia 637
Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire) ........ 218 Zimbabwe ................................. 657
Kenya ........................................ 220 Appendices ............................... 679
i
Preface
The compilation of a comprehensive guide to Intellectual Property Laws and
Procedures in Africa has long been a goal for academics and practitioners
alike. Over the years this encouraged Adams & Adams to produce
handbooks on aspects of the intellectual property laws and procedures in
Africa, on a fairly limited scale. However, the rapid development on both
the economic and legislative fronts in Africa over the past 10 years
prompted us to consider a more detailed publication. This has now been
made possible through generous funding by the World Bank, facilitated by
the University of Pretoria through the Faculty of Law and the Pretoria
University Legal Press.
Some 12 years ago, The Economist Magazine labelled Africa ‘the hopeless
continent’ but rather than shrivel, the continent has experienced one of the
fastest economic growth rates in the world. In a recent World Bank report,
it was estimated that Foreign Direct Investment in Africa will reach US $150
billion in 2012, up from US $84 billion in 2010. Investors are taking a long
term view of the prospects in Africa and investing heavily in infrastruc