The Health Bill must empower the Cabinet Secretary for Health to utilise compulsory licensing
There are various types of Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement flexibilities. According to the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS flexibilities and...
Read MoreLDCs ‘Unconditional’ TRIPS Extension Granted But, Limited to 2021
A few weeks ago, this blogger explained here why the TRIPS Council must extend the least developing countries (LDCs) TRIPS Agreement compliance transition period for...
Read MoreThe Proposed Kenya Association of Intellectual Property Professionals (KAIPP)
CIPIT is pleased to invite you all to a stakeholders meeting on the proposed creation of an Intellectual Property (IP) association for Practitioners in Kenya,...
Read MoreOf Death and Registration: Rethinking Corporate Authorship in Copyright In Light of Emerging Jurisprudence on Corporate Citizenship in Kenya
In an earlier post, this blogger asked the question: what is the duration of copyright where the owner of the copyright work is a juristic...
Read MoreWhy extending the LDC’s TRIPs transition period is inevitable
The US and the European Union have lost the war. They cannot stand against the army of supporters backing the least developing countries (LDCs) to...
Read MoreIn Support of An Intellectual Property Association of Kenya
It was in response to Isaac’s post on Afro-IP that this blogger put forth the idea of setting up a bona fide association for intellectual...
Read MoreThe Maasai Intellectual Property Initiative: Why Should Others Do Pro-Bono IP Work For Kenya?
In a recent media report titled: “Maasai elders swap Kenya for Holborn Viaduct”, the global law firm Hogan Lovells has reportedly invited Maasai elders to...
Read MoreLessons from MCSN – NCC Saga in Nigeria: Can Music Copyright Society of Kenya Administer Rights Without Government License?
…there has been a bickering and attendant judicial skirmish over who is the sole Collector in Nigeria, at the time of penning this piece, the...
Read MoreThe future of IP policy in developing countries: The impact of Patricia and Norvatis decisions
Two major events that have taken place in a span of two years will radically transform the future of intellectual Property (IP) policies especially in...
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