The registration of domain names in Nigeria is handled by the office of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) the creation of which was approved by the Federal Executive Council in March 2001. NITDA is under the supervision of the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology and its primary mandate is “to ensure the...Read More
The offices of Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) and National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) are both in charge of regulating the importation/exportation of non-consumables and consumable products into and from Nigeria respectively. STANDARDS ORGANISATION OF NIGERIA (SON) SON as Standards Organisation of Nigeria is generally known was established in 1971...Read More
Nigeria’s copyright legislations has certainly made giant stride in it attempts to meet up with international standards and development, of all the arms of intellectual property law, copyright can certainly be said to be the most developed in terms of complying with international treaty obligations. In order to achieve this, the principal Copyright Act of...Read More
Trade & Service Mark Nigeria is a party to the Madrid Agreement on International Registration of Trademarks and the Nice Agreement on the International Classification of Goods and Services. The laws governing trademark administration and the enforcement of it accruing rights in Nigeria are contained in Cap 436 of the Trade Marks Act (TMA) 1965,...Read More
Introduction The Patents and Designs Act of 1971 Cap. 344 is the substantive law governing affairs of patents in Nigeria, while the Patent, while the Patents Rules regulates the procedures adopted at the Patent Registry. Under section 26 Patent and Designs Act, the Jurisdiction to hear and dispose of legal proceedings under the PDA is...Read More
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
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
