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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ncube, Caroline B.

Titel

Key Considerations in the Development of a Continental IP System

Ist Teil von

• Intellectual Property Law in Africa, 2023, p.154-187

Auflage

2

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This chapter considers co-operation, harmonisation and unification as employed by APEC, ASEAN, BRICS, EU, MERCUSOR and OHADA to draw lessons for an appropriate approach for the AU. Bearing in mind the challenges and opportunities of each approach, it concludes that an appropriately paced approach to harmonisation would be suitable for Africa's intended continental IP instruments and institutions. This chapter considers co-operation, harmonisation and unification as employed by APEC, ASEAN, BRICS, EU, MERCUSOR and OHADA to draw lessons for an appropriate approach for the AU. Bearing in mind the challenges and opportunities of each approach, it concludes that an appropriately paced approach to harmonisation would be suitable for Africa's intended continental IP instruments and institutions. ASEAN was established in 1967 and its membership comprises of the founding states of Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand, together with the later joiners, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar and Vietnam. The ASEAN FTA was established in 19926 and the agreement was later upgraded, becoming in 2009 the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement, which entered into force in May 2010. Thereafter, ASEAN created an economic community, by its goal date of 2015 through the adoption of the Kuala Lumpur Declaration on ASEAN 2025: Forging Ahead Together in 2015.