Copyright and Related Rights

Africa is beginning to make its mark in the international space sector, driven by growing investment and innovation. The 2025 inauguration of the African Space Agency represents a key milestone in this expansion.

The “Inventa IP Review” annually highlights key intellectual property (IP) developments from the past year. This magazine features our team's opinion articles, interviews, press releases, and other expert insights.

In today's competitive business landscape, protecting your brand's integrity is crucial for long-term success. Intellectual property (IP) protection is a vital aspect of this process, as it prevents the unauthorized use of your brand assets.

The Inventa IP Review magazine highlights some of the IP news of the previous year, written by our team, through opinion articles, interviews or press releases. We cover relevant topics that have marked the field of innovation, trademarks, patents or intellectual property rights.

The African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (AfCFTA) was signed on March 21, 2018, at Kigali, Rwanda, where 44 out of 55 African Union member states appended their assent to a landmark treaty.

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The Inventa IP Review magazine highlights some of the IP news of the previous year, written by our team, through opinion articles, interviews or press releases. We cover relevant topics that have marked the field of innovation, trademarks, patents or intellectual property rights, mainly in Europe, Africa and Asia.

The 2022 edition shares useful information on the protection of trademarks in different jurisdictions, the entry into the Unitary Patent system and also the impact that may arise from the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in the IP field.

Is it possible to draw a line between IP rights and other fundamental rights? It depends.

Published on IP STARS (Managing IP), Vera Albino summarizes four decisions of 2022 in which European courts had to consider the relationship between copyright and the right to respect for private life, the right to information or even freedom of expression, guaranteed by European law.

In some cases, as we can see, it is necessary to strike a relatively fair balance between them.

On November 29, the Parliament of East Timor approved the country's first Code of Copyright and Related Rights, intended to protect the creation, production and commercialization of literary, scientific and artistic works and their respective authors.

This law, which will come into force 180 days after its publication, proves to be an essential regulatory basis for the recognition of national innovation and culture, rewarding its authors and thus stimulating the creation of new intellectual assets in the most diverse areas of expression.

There is a grey area of protection for works of applied art, either by copyright or by design, both intellectual property rights which have different criteria of protection.