Intellectual Property Archives - Legal Thinking Kenya

Kenya’s Lake Bogoria and the Global Biotech Industry

By Millicent November 17, 2017Intellectual Property

Unep's news desk recently reported that Kenya's Lake Bogoria contains an unusual array of microbes and micro organisms from which enzymes have been produced for use in antibiotics and cleaning products.…

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…

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…

Biodiversity Law in Brazil

By Millicent November 20, 2015Intellectual Property

The Brazilian government enacted the Biodiversity Law (Federal Law 13, 123/2015), which came into force on the 17th of November 2015. The law established rules for; access to genetic heritage,…

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.

Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge in Namibia

By Millicent August 1, 2015Intellectual Property

The ministry of Environment & Tourism conducted a 3 day workshop in Windhoek Namibia, to help create public awareness on the importance of documenting and protecting IPR's related to the…

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…