Counterfeiting and Piracy; The Need For An Effective Border Control Regime

Introduction Counterfeiting and Piracy are presently acknowledged as one of the greatest global threats to creativity. Counterfeiting is the act of unlawfully imitating or reproducing items/works protected by the ...

E-Commerce Opportunities in Nigeria

Before the discovery of oil, the economy of Nigeria depended largely on agriculture. Upon the discovery of oil, the country’s attention shifted to oil exploration as the main driver of the economy, accounting for ...

A Review of Corporate Governance Codes in 2014

The complexity in the governance of corporations has continued to assume greater dimension as a result of the interplay between the directors, management, shareholders and the stakeholders. In Nigeria, corporate ...

SEO and Intellectual Property

Introduction An independent assessment of the investment market will reveal that foreign investors are increasingly willing to invest in businesses run by Nigerians who have better understanding of the local terrain ...

E-Commerce Income Tax Regime in Nigeria

Introduction Historically, commercial transactions were undertaken with the traditional perception of a market in mind and taxation of these market activities has been a source of government revenue. Global ...

Reputed to be the largest annual meeting of its kind in the last 137 years, trademark professionals from about 150 countries all around the world would be gathering at San Diego, United States of America from May 2 ...

The 9th annual conference of the Section on Business Law (SBL) of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) is slated to hold from June 7th to 9th, 2015 at Eko Hotel & Suites. The conference is themed, “Regulators as ...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the body charged with the registration of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses have continued to roll out new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) for ...

This judicial precedent prevents any future devious copyright take down notices against mobile companies for their failure to withdraw particular publications.

According to the E.U Court, mobile companies are not liable to pay compensation to copyright holders for the inclusion of legally acquired music or film on their devices for private use. This judgment is the product ...