Curious Amicus, Author at Legal Thinking Kenya

Intellectual Property Training in Nairobi

By Curious Amicus April 19, 2017Intellectual Property

iHub has teamed with uWakili to provide specific pro bono legal services to startups. uWakili is an online legal services platform that provides Kenyan businesses and individuals with easy-to-use and cost-effective…

Kindle release: ‘The Nagoya Protocol: Its impact on access & benefit sharing, patent applications and the utilisation of genetic resources’.

By Curious Amicus September 29, 2016Intellectual Property, Law Books

Following the success of the paperback edition of ‘The Nagoya Protocol: Its impact on access & benefit sharing, patent applications and the utilisation of genetic resources', this concise work is…

Law Books for the LPC, 2016, and OSCE/QLTS

By Curious Amicus August 22, 2016Law Books

The Oxford University Press publishes the Legal Practice Course manuals, which provide a guide to the law, practice and procedure that are at the heart of the Legal Practice Course.…

Patent application number: 20160109707

By Curious Amicus May 3, 2016Intellectual Property

No aficionado of patent drawings should miss out on 'Combining At Least One Variable Focus Element With A Plurality Of Stacked Waveguides For Augmented Or Virtual Reality Display' to Magic…

Nagoya Protocol – new book release

By Curious Amicus November 21, 2015Intellectual Property, Law Books

'The Nagoya Protocol: Its impact on access & benefit sharing, patent applications and the utilisation of genetic resources'. Today sees the release in paperback of the first book by Millicent…

Nagoya Protocol – new book to be released tomorrow

By Curious Amicus November 20, 2015Intellectual Property, Law Books

‘The Nagoya Protocol: Its impact on access & benefit sharing, patent applications and the utilisation of genetic resources’, is due for release tomorrow in paperback.

Ninety-five percent of torture today is not for political prisoners

By Curious Amicus November 30, 2014Law Bits

"Ninety-five percent of torture today is not for political prisoners; it is for people who are in broken-down legal systems," says Karen Tse, founder of International Bridges to Justice. …

Torture in Africa: The Law and Practice

By Curious Amicus September 23, 2014International Justice

A meeting of African experts on the law and practice on torture was held in Naivasha, Kenya in May 2012. It was organised by REDRESS in collaboration with the Independent…

Patented Cure for Cancer

By Curious Amicus August 29, 2014Intellectual Property

This patent won EFF’s Stupid Patent of the Month, and rightly so. Perhaps that has given the game away before even starting. I recall a young researcher finishing proudly reading…

Legal Aid – legal representation for the needy

By Curious Amicus January 21, 2014Law Bits

Legal aid provides help to people who would otherwise be unable to afford legal representation or to gain access to the courts. Legal aid helps to ensure equality before the…