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Nigerian Intellectual Property Law: Reform and Development

Edited by Ayoyemi Arowolo · Kunle Ola
Routledge March 2022

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ISBN-13
9781032168999
Publisher
Routledge
Publication
March 2022
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This book reflects on the development of Nigeria’s intellectual property law and outlines the urgent need for reform.

Bringing together expert contributors from around the world, the book identifies and discusses the inadequacies and lacunas in current intellectual property law, and how it is practiced and applied in Nigeria. The book argues that the revision and reform of Nigeria’s intellectual property law will be vital for the country’s development and national interests, whilst also recognising that Nigeria’s legal provisions must sit within a broader global context. Divided into three parts, the book discusses patents, trademarks, and copyright in the context of broad overarching themes affecting all aspects of intellectual property law.

Honouring Professor Adebambo Adewopo San, the pioneering thinker in Nigerian intellectual property law, this book will be an important resource for researchers working on African Law.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Chidi Oguamanam
Introduction: Nigerian IP Experience: Past and Present
Ayoyemi Arowolo and Kunle Ola
Part I: Patents
Patent Licensing Contracts under Nigerian and US Law: The Operation of the Exhaustion Doctrine in Nigeria
Olasupo Owoeye and Faith Aboyeji
The Patent System and Access to Essential Medicine (HIV and Cancer) in Nigeria: Overcoming the Challenges of Unsustainable Donor Funding and Impaired Access
Amarachi Chizaram Okonkoh
Rethinking the Patents and Designs Act in the Era of Genomic Research
Olumayowa O. Adesanya
Law Reform and Employee-Invention Patents in Nigeria: A Cue from the United Kingdom
Ayodele Adewole
Traditional Knowledge on the Medicinal Uses of Plants (TKMUP) in Nigeria: Whither the Patent System in COVID 19 Pandemic
Emeka Polycarp Amechi and Jane Ezirigwe
Part II: Trademarks
Two Strings on a Bow: Scope of Registrable Trademarks from the Era of Traditional Knowledge to Digital Technology in Nigeria (Pre and Post 1965)
Ayoyemi Lawal-Arowolo
Registration of Domain Name as Trademarks in Nigeria: Panacea to Cybersquatting Somoto David Ojukwu
Trademark in The Digital Age in Nigeria
Ifeoma Anne Oluwasemilore
Part III: Copyright
The Quagmire of Open Access: Availability, Accessibility, and Impact
Kunle Ola
Evolution of Digital Performance and The Rights in Performances
Dorcas A. Odunaike and Oluwatobiloba O. Olanrewaju
Non-consensual Pornography in Nigeria and the Copyright Law
Ifeoluwa A. Olubiyi and Faith K. Bamidele
Intellectual Property Law and the Protection of Creative MSMEs in the Digital Economy of Nigeria: Leveraging AfCFTA
Helen Chuma-Okoro and Omolara Bisi Olabanji 
Registration of Copyright Works in Nigeria from the Prism of TV XTRA Productions Ltd V National University Commission and Zain Nigeria
Ridwan ‘Lanre Ajetunmobi
Inequality of Bargaining Power between Artistes and Recording Companies: A critical Review of the Case of African Songs Ltd V Sunny Ade
A.A. Adedeji and O. Durotolu
Seeking Protection for use of Images in Commercial Practices in Nigeria: A Pathway to Intellectual Property Reform and Development
Nkem Itanyi and Christian Aniukwu
Intellectual Property Reform in Nigeria
Bankole Sodipo
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