Museveni rap song application accepted
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni application to copyright his song, “You want another rap” has been accepted. In the Uganda Gazette of December 3, the registrar of copyright, Mercy Kyomugisha Ndyahikayo, also...
Edgar Tabaro Elected As Deputy Board Chairman of NUTIP
KTA Partner, Edgar Tabaro has been confirmed as the Deputy Board Chair of the Netherands Uganda Trade and Investment Platform (NUTIP).
Patent Law Reform in Uganda: Addressing Priorities and Strategies
Abstract The Republic of Uganda is presently engaged, as many other developing countries, in reform of its intellectual property laws. The process raises a number of questions as to whether...
The WTO process, Geographical Indications and the East African Community: the state of play
As a legal concept Geographical Indications (GIs) received international recognition for the first time through the TRIPS Agreement. Many developing countries subsequently realized that the protection of GIs could possibly...
The Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa
This contribution entails an analysis of the development of a standard material transfer agreement presently being negotiated under the International Treaty for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. In...
Intellectual Property Rights Law and Innovation in Uganda: The Need for a Coherent Policy Framework
Abstract Innovation has been recognised as a major source of modern productivity and constitutes a central process of economic development and in the case of developing countries, poverty reduction. However,...
Let’s not ignore danger of fossil fuels
It is Franz Fanon who said “Each generation must out of relative obscurity discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it.” Fossil fuels entail coal, oil and gas and natural...
