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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ncube, Caroline B.

Titel

Sub-Regional IP Organisations

Ist Teil von

• Intellectual Property Law in Africa, 2023, p.110-153

Auflage

2

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This chapter considers the ARIPO and OAPI's institutional frameworks and their regulatory instruments with a focus on areas they both address, namely patents, utility models, industrial designs, trade marks and plant variety protection. This chapter details each sub-regional IP organisation's organs and regulatory frameworks in turn. To enable comparative analysis of the two organisations, it outlines only those areas where both organisations have legal instruments in place, namely patents, utility models, industrial designs, trade marks and plant variety protection to enable some comparative commentary. Thereafter, the Administrative Council established more subsidiary organs, namely the Finance Committee and the Board of Appeal in 1993 and 1997, respectively, followed by an Audit Committee, a Staff Affairs Committee and several technical committees. The Harare Protocol empowers ARIPO, through its Secretariat, to receive and process patent, utility models and industrial design applications on behalf of state parties to the protocol. The agreement expressly provides for the organisation's power to examine applications and carry out all the necessary procedural steps to grant patents and utility models, trade marks and service marks, industrial designs, trade names, geographical indications, layout designs of integrated circuits and plant variety certificates.