First Quarter Newsletter 2025

First Quarter Newsletter 2025

Welcome to the first edition of our Intellectual Property (“ÏP”) Update Newsletter in 2025! In this issue, we explore the evolving IP landscape in Nigeria, keeping you informed on the latest IP trends and developments. UPDATE ON THE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDINGS...
TRADE MARKS AND YOUR BUSINESS

TRADE MARKS AND YOUR BUSINESS

Introduction Trade marking is a way of referring to a brand, it makes it easy for customers to find your business. What is a trade mark? It is a sign used by a person in the course of business to identify its goods or services and to distinguish his goods or services...
OBTAINING PATENT GRANTS IN NIGERIA

OBTAINING PATENT GRANTS IN NIGERIA

In Nigeria, an invention is patentable if it is new, results from inventive activity and is capable of industrial application, this is the tripartite patentability requirement; or if it constitutes an improvement upon a patented invention and is new, results from...