Tag: #intellectualproperty

As businesses strive to distinguish themselves in the marketplace, the risk of deceptive practices (knowingly or unknowingly) by competitors increases. The intellectual property law offers protection to registered trade mark. However, owners of unregistered trade mark are not without some remedies if their mark has …

The hallmark of trademark is a grant of certain right(s) to proprietors of a given product or band in the market to the exclusion of other competitors from making use of a sign, symbol or slogan with which the product is identified. Distinctiveness is the …

Trademark, in a simple term, is a word, symbol, device, or any combination used to identify a particular product thereby distinguishing it from other products. It confers a legal right on the holder and prohibits others from making use of that particular word or symbol …

Intellectual property works involve the application of one’s cognitive abilities to produce something new and original. The protection of these brainchildren is essential to ensure that the creator of a work gets due credit for his creation. A major challenge faced by musicians and artists …

The body of law for copyright protection in Nigeria is the Copyright Act 2022 and judicial decisions in which the provisions of the successive Copyright Acts have been interpreted. As decided by the Supreme Court in Plateau Publishing v. Adophy 1986) 4 NWLR (Pt. 34) …

The main objectives of a copyright law are to protect the rights of the authors to ensure just reward and recognition for their intellectual efforts; and to provide appropriate limitations and exceptions to guarantee access to creative works. Copyright confers exclusive rights of exploitation to …