Prosecution

World Trademark Review (WTR) has just announced its WTR 1000 - The World's Leading Trademark Professionals. In this year’s edition, of this important worldwide rank, Inventa International is recommended as a top Intellectual Property firm.

On December 4, Samoa’s Government deposited its instrument of accession to join the Madrid Protocol with WIPO’s Director General, Francis Gurry.

The deadline granted by the Angolan Institute of Industrial Property (IAPI), for applicants to present the documents to update their requests to register brands from 5,001 to 20.757, ends on the 26 December 2018. 

This process started in December last year, at which time Inventa International announced its beginning, having also informed about the required documents to update the files referring to these trademarks.

Maputo received an important Seminar to discuss the deposit of microorganisms for the purposes of Patent Procedure under the Budapest Treaty, an initiative that Inventa International couldn’t miss.

This initiative, which took place in two separate sessions, was attended by Ewald Glantschnig, WIPO Representative for the Budapest Treaty, and José Joaquim Meque, Director General of IPI.

Inventa International attended the Economic Forum Portugal-Angola, that took place in Oporto in Portugal. The event highlighted the importance of economic relations between the two countries, where we are proud to work with several business areas, protecting all Intellectual Property interests.

The wish to foster a cooperative relationship between the two countries was reinforced on this initiative, attended by Portugal's Prime Minister António Costa and the Angolan President, João Lourenço.

The need to improve the terms of the Bangui Agreement led the African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI) to revise the document, signed on 14 December 2015 in Bamako, Mali.

After a discussion period of three year, OAPI recently made public the major alterations to the Agreement, that will improve the quality of its operational procedures, bringing it closer to practices of other international organisms.  

The Authorities of Kenya have published, on April 10th 2018, The Statue Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill, 2018, a legislation for the amendments of several laws, in which the Industrial Property Act, 2001 (No. 3 of 2001), the Copyright Act, 2001 (No. 12 of 2001), the Anti-Counterfeit Act, 2008 (No. 13 of 2008) and the Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Expressions Act, 2016 (No. 33 of 2016) are included.

The most important business fair of Cape Verde, FIC 2018, took place at

The long-awaited renovation of Malawian’s Trademark Legal Framework is a reality since the October 1st 2018, as the New Act No. 2 of 2018, published on February 2nd 2018, has finally entered into force. The new law replaces a Trademark Act from 1957, and it will consider several international instruments regarding trademark protection.

This is a very positive change, as it means that the country will improve its Intellectual Property practices, as well as it will also be able to comply with the international trademark system.

The Mozambique Industrial Property Code (IPC), which has been in force since 2016, provides six main IP rights that any entity may use to protect their distinctive signs in commerce.

The aim of this article is to analyze to what extent these six different rights are necessary and the effects they may produce on Mozambique’s IP system.

Article 1 of the IPC provides definitions of distinctive signs, including: