An owner of a registered trademark must use the mark within Ghana or risk losing the protection granted by registration. The Trademarks Act grants a person interested in a trade mark to request the Registrar to remove a trade mark from the register because up to one month prior to filing for removal...

The Legal Period and Extension of Trademark Protection The period of protection is ten years from the filing date of the application for registration and the registration can be renewed for consecutive periods of ten years subject to payment of prescribed fees for renewal. The law requires that any ...

WHY your company should protect its trademark While most businesses realize the importance of using trademarks to differentiate their products from those of their competitors, not all realize the importance of protecting them through registration. Without registration, your investments in marketing ...

The value of trademark A carefully selected and nurtured trademark is a valuable business asset for most companies. For some, it may be the most valuable asset they own. ‘Trademarks” and “Brand” are often used interchangeably. The American Marketing Association defines a brand as a “na...

I would like to share with you students’ proposal for amendment with regards to the Patent Law of Ghana, Section 4(2). According to Section 4(2) of the Ghanaian Patent Act, 2003 (Act 657), “Where two or more persons have jointly made an invention, the right to the patent belongs to them jointly�...

A trademark is a sign capable of distinguishing the goods or services produced or provided by one enterprise from those of other enterprises. In Ghana, the Trademarks Act, 2004 (Act 664) as amended, defines a trademark a sign or combination of signs capable of distinguishing the goods or services of...

I would like to share with you a proposal made by students of the first cohort of Masters in Intellectual Property at KNUST after my one-week lectures on the topic: Industrial Property (Patents, Utility Module and Innovation, and Industrial Designs. I am thankful to the students for their kind permi...

What Is Traditional Knowledge? Traditional Intellectual Property or traditional Knowledge has not been specifically defined in reviewed literature. In a broad sense, it is composite in nature encompassing both tangible and intangible Spiritual) aspects. For example, a typical traditional healing pro...

Intellectual Property Rights broadly means the legal rights which results from intellectual activities in the industrial, scientific, literary and artistic fields. Intellectual property laws provide a statutory expression to the moral and economic rights of creators in their creation and the rights ...

I had the pleasure of joining my colleague, Mr. Said Ramahdan (Senior Examiner, African Regional Intellectual Property Organization, (ARIPO) to lecture the first cohort of Masters in Intellectual Property at KNUST. My colleague and I taught a module on the program from 24-28 September 2018. The modu...