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28 Aug 2021, 12:50 am
Our SpecialKat Chijioke Okorie published an instructive post on South Africa’s patent laws and how the absence of a definition for ‘inventor’ enabled South African authorities to register the DABUS patent.Katfriend Konstantin Voropaev analysed a patent trolling case from Kazakhstan, where a local patent troll threatened the market of taxi aggregators (platforms, where passengers connect with drivers). [read post]
15 May 2019, 10:06 pm
Chijioke Okorie writes For archives only: crafting copyright limitations and exceptions for archives in South Africa. [read post]
14 Jan 2019, 2:02 am
Supreme Court of NigeriaOver the past few years, Nigeria has seen a number of cases tackling the vexed issue of locus standi of collecting societies.Katfriend Chijioke Okorie (Penguide Advisory) reports on the latest instalment.Here’s what Chijioke writes: “The Nigerian Supreme Court has delivered yet another judgment bordering on the capacity (locus standi) of a “pseudo” collecting society to institute an action for copyright infringement. [read post]
2 May 2020, 4:33 am
Estar, as reported by GuestKat Rose Hughes.Rose also covered the EQE Supervisory Board's announcement that there will now no longer be any European qualifying examination in 2020, which prompted a lively debate below the line.Katfriends Gian Paolo Di Santo, Gabriele Girardello, and Greta Cucinella offered a valuable insight into pharmaceutical patents and COVID-19 from an Italian perspective.Trade MarksSpecialKat Chijioke Okorie considered the question of whether there is any… [read post]
14 Jun 2013, 8:42 am
Over in Africa, Chijioke Ifeoma Okorie -- who has now joined the Afro-IP blog team -- has made some good points about the relationship of copyright-based businesses to the increasingly popular concept of open educational resources. [read post]
11 Oct 2020, 12:09 pm
Back in May, Chijioke Okorie started the Beijing Treaty in Africa series. [read post]
28 Mar 2020, 11:54 am
Chijioke Okorie discussed the fair dealing exception in South Africa. [read post]
16 Sep 2022, 8:35 am
SpecialKat Chijioke Okorie reported on this here. [read post]
30 Dec 2021, 1:39 pm
MiscellaneousSpecialKat Chijioke Okorie brought us a series of highlights of intellectual property in Africa this year, divided into copyright, trade marks, and patents, policy, legislation and administration. [read post]
20 Jan 2020, 9:54 am
The event will take place at Simmons' London office in Moorgate from 2pm to 7:30pm, and you can find further information here.Book ReviewsSpecialKat Chijioke Okorie reviewed '3D Printing and Intellectual Property' by Lucas S. [read post]
7 Apr 2023, 6:30 am
.'” Nigeria amends its Copyright Act to ratify outstanding copyright treaties and address other issues — Writing at IPKat, Chijioke Okorie reviews some of the highlights of Nigeria’s Copyright Act 2022, which was signed into law on March 17. [read post]
2 Jun 2021, 12:22 pm
Chijioke Okorie reported on South Africa’s National Assembly’s decision to rescind the pass of the Copyright Amendment Bill. [read post]
20 Feb 2017, 2:53 am
Chijioke Ifeoma Okorie will be publishing a much awaited post on the judgment in Musical Copyright Society of Nigeria Ltd v Nigerian Copyright Commission. [read post]
27 Dec 2020, 11:57 am
This Kat has had entirely too much turkeyWith another year drawing to a close, there's roundups and retrospectives all round.CopyrightThe first instalment of SpecialKat and Africa Correspondent Chijioke Okorie's 2020 Africa IP Highlights roundup shone a light on key decisions and reforms in the copyright sphere.Trade MarksTurning to trade marks, the second 2020 Africa IP Highlights instalment gave a chronological overview of the past year's trade mark and… [read post]
24 Feb 2020, 12:56 pm
However, its reliance on identifying similarities with existing popular music could prove to be problematic from a copyright perspective.Clarence Lakpini was in attendance at the launch of GuestKat Chijioke Okorie's new book on 'Multi-Sided Music Platforms and the Law', summarising a number of issues and talking points which arose at the event here.Trade MarksThe IPKat commented on two trade mark judgments, with GuestKat Riana Harvey reporting on the High… [read post]
27 Sep 2020, 7:08 am
Designs Our Africa Correspondent, Chijioke Okorie, shared her analysis of a design case, which reached the Federal High Court of Nigeria Here, the Court considered whether two designs of the respondent, registered without substantive examination, were new or should be nullified based on an earlier product from the claimant. [read post]
25 Aug 2022, 2:04 am
(see here).Our GuestKat Chijioke Okorie reported on the recent recommendation issued by the Kenya Copyright Board (KECOBO) entitled "Advisory on memes and copyright law," which analysed the phenomenon of memes in light of Kenya's Copyright Act (see here). [read post]
12 Jun 2020, 9:51 am
This Kat is asserting her moral rights (to tuna)If you were taking a Kat-nap last week, rest assured that you can still keep up with this IPKat compilation.CopyrightSpecialKat Chijioke Okorie considered the copyright implications of livestreaming in light of the Kenya Copyright Board's recent clarification regarding rates payable by DJs/venues when they livestream recorded music.GuestKat Thomas Key reported on a recent judgment of the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which… [read post]
5 Aug 2019, 12:27 am
Team NewsGuestKat Rose Hughes will soon begin a new role as Patent Attorney at AstraZeneca in Cambridge, UK.Africa Correspondent Chijioke Okorie has been appointed a Queen Elizabeth Scholar under the Open African Innovation Research (Open AIR) project. [read post]
18 Feb 2020, 12:01 pm
Book reviewsLast week, our SpecialKat Hayleigh Bosher reviewed a recent book publication from…our SpecialKat Chijioke Okorie, “Multi-sided Music Platforms and the Law, Copyright, Law and Policy in Africa”. [read post]
