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 law of trademarks, patents, or copyrights (Intellectual Property- IP), while portraying them as originals. This is usually represented in goods illegally bearing registered/well-known trademarks. Piracy on...Read More

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 over 80% of the country’s foreign exchange earnings. The recent crash in global oil prices, resulting in dwindling oil revenue and...Read More

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 governance became a front burner in public discourse after the collapse witnessed in the Nigerian banking sector in the early 2000s. Consequently, industry regulators evolved...Read More

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 as opposed to setting up and running them personally. The last decade witnessed a meteoric rise in entrepreneurship and birthed several start-ups in Nigeria....Read More

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 industrialization and efficiency in the factors of production and distribution of goods and service has significantly altered the primordial perception of a market from being a...Read More

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 -6 2015 for the International Trademarks Association’s annual meeting.Read More

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 Catalysts for Economic Growth”.Read More

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 registration. Since January 12, 2012 when ICANN began accepting applications for new gTLDs, some gTLDs like .adult and .porn have attracted public comments. However none...Read More

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

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 of a Danish case against Nokia by Copydan.Read More