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ARIPO members as of 30 April 2020.[1]

The

Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO), formerly African Regional Industrial Property Organization, is an intergovernmental organisation promoting cooperation among African states in patent and other intellectual property matters. ARIPO was established under the Lusaka Agreement of 1976 and currently administers four protocols related to patents and industrial design (Harare Protocol), trademarks (Banjul protocol), traditional knowledge and expressions of folklore (Swakopmund Protocol), and plant varieties (Arusha Protocol).[2] The latter is not yet in force (as of 30 April 2020
).

ARIPO is one of two sub-regional intellectual property organisations in Africa, the other being the Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle (OAPI).[3] Broadly speaking, OAPI is primarily comprised of French-speaking countries (former French colonies), whereas ARIPO's 19 member states are mostly English-speaking (former British colonies).

History

Background: Intellectual property in the colonial era

When, in the first half of the 20th century, a majority of Africa was still under the rule of European governments, intellectual property matters were largely governed by the domestic laws of the colonial powers.[4] In the British colonies specifically, the colonial governments used to have wide latitude in establishing their own intellectual property legislation earlier in the colonial period—a power they used to different extents.[5] Towards the end of the 19th century, however, and in particular in the early 20th century, substantial efforts were made within the British Empire to unify the existing regulations:[6] In the area of copyright, for instance, the Imperial Copyright Act of 1911 was binding on all colonies (with some local deviations permitted).[7] And even though the project of an "Empire patent" eventually failed, the colonies at the beginning of the 20th century modelled their patent laws after that of Great Britain.[8]


During the same time, a series of multilateral treaties entered into force, by the colonial powers, beginning with the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (1883) and, in the area of copyright law, the Berne Convention (1886).


After the former colonies had gained independence from their colonial powers, it

Members

Membership as of 30 April 2020[1]
Country Date of accession/ratification
Lusaka Agreement Harare Protocol Banjul Protocol Swakopmund Protocol
 Botswana 6 February 1985 6 May 1985 29 October 2003 28 March 2012
 Gambia 15 February 1978 16 January 1986 X 11 February 2015
 Ghana 15 February 1978 25 April 1984 X X
 Kenya 15 February 1978 24 October 1984 X X
 Lesotho 23 July 1987 23 October 1987 12 February 1999 X
 Liberia 24 December 2009 24 March 2010 24 March 2010 25 October 2016
 Malawi 15 February 1978 25 April 1984 6 March 1997 20 December 2012
 Mozambique 8 February 2000 8 May 2000 X X
 Namibia 14 October 2003 23 April 2004 14 January 2004 11 February 2015
 Rwanda 24 June 2011 24 September 2011 X 16 July 2012
 São Tomé and Príncipe 19 May 2014 19 August 2014 27 November 2015 X
 Sierra Leone 5 December 1980 25 February 1999 X X
 Somalia 10 December 1981 X X X
 Sudan 2 May 1978 25 April 1984 X X
 Swaziland 17 December 1987 17 March 1988 6 March 1997 X
 Tanzania 12 October 1983 1 September 1999 1 September 1999 X
 Uganda 8 August 1978 25 April 1984 21 November 2000 X
 Zambia 15 February 1978 26 February 1986 X 28 August 2015
 Zimbabwe 11 November 1980 25 April 1984 6 March 1997 22 April 2013

(Tanzania does not include Zanzibar, which operates under its own, independent intellectual property regime and maintains a separate office for the registration of intellectual property.[9])

As of 31 December 2017, five countries have signed the Arusha Protocol of 6 July 2015 (Gambia, Ghana, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Tanzania).[2] However, so far only one country has ratified or acceded to it (Rwanda, on 7 June 2019).[10] For the Protocol to enter into force, four countries need to have deposited their instruments of ratification or accession.[11]

Observers

As of 1 May 2017, 12 states have observer status at the ARIPO, to wit:[12]

  1.  Algeria
  2.  Angola
  3.  Burundi
  4.  Egypt
  5.  Eritrea
  6.  Ethiopia
  7.  Libya
  8.  Mauritius
  9.  Nigeria
  10.  Seychelles
  11.  South Africa
  12.  Tunisia

Organs

ARIPO’s organisational structure consists of four organs: the Council of Ministers, the Administrative Council, the Secretariat, and the Board of Appeal.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b ARIPO, "PERMANENT NOTICES" (2020) 37(4) ARIPO Journal, 2 <http://eservice.aripo.org/ppb/pjd/PPBJournalPdfDownload.do?key=C2FB577481DB5DCD9AFEF56E1B7B765F649BBCF9&journalSeq=1179> accessed 5 June 2020.
  2. ^ a b ARIPO, "ARIPO Annual Report 2018" (2019), 14 <https://www.aripo.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ARIPO-Annual-Report-2018.pdf> accessed 5 June 2020.
  3. ^ CB Ncube, Intellectual Property Policy, Law and Administration in Africa: Exploring continental and sub-regional co-operation (Routledge 2016) 2.
  4. ^ T Kongolo, "History of intellectual property in Africa" (2017) 39 EIPR 428, 430f.
  5. ^ See generally L Bently, "The “Extraordinary Multiplicity” of Intellectual Property Laws in the British Colonies in the Nineteenth Century" (2011) 12 Theoretical Inq L 161, 162ff (concluding that intellectual property legislation in the British colonies was "varied, complex and messy").
  6. ^ L Bently, "The “Extraordinary Multiplicity” of Intellectual Property Laws in the British Colonies in the Nineteenth Century" (2011) 12 Theoretical Inq L 161, 188ff.
  7. ^ L Bently, "The 'Extraordinary Multiplicity' of Intellectual Property Laws in the British Colonies in the Nineteenth Century" (2011) 12 Theoretical Inq L 161, 190.
  8. ^ C Wadlow, "The British Empire patent 1901 - 1923: the 'global' patent that never was" [2006] IPQ 311, 314.
  9. ^ ED de Plessis, Adams & Adams Practical Guide to Intellectual Property in Africa (Pretoria University Law Press 2012) 567, 584ff; Wood-Kahari 2019, para 9A:1.
  10. ^ ARIPO, "Rwanda takes the lead in joining the Arusha Protocol for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants within the framework of ARIPO" (7 June 2019) <https://www.aripo.org/rwanda-takes-the-lead-in-joining-the-arusha-protocol-for-the-protection-of-new-varieties-of-plants-within-the-framework-of-aripo/> accessed 5 June 2020.
  11. ^ Arusha Protocol 2015, art 40(3).
  12. ^ CB Ncube, "Three Centuries and Counting: The Emergence and Development of Intellectual Property Law in Africa" in R Dreyfuss and J Pila (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Intellectual Property Law (Oxford University Press 2018) 415.

Bibliography

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  • Bently L, "The “Extraordinary Multiplicity” of Intellectual Property Laws in the British Colonies in the Nineteenth Century" (2011) 12 Theoretical Inq L 161.
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  • Kongolo T, "History of intellectual property in Africa" (2017) 39 EIPR 428.
  • Kongolo T, African Contributions in Shaping the Worldwide Intellectual Property System (Ashgate 2013).
  • Kongolo T, "Historical Developments of Industrial Property Laws in Africa" (2013) 5 WIPOJ 105.
  • Kongolo T, "The African Intellectual Property Organizations: The Necessity of Adopting One Uniform System for All Africa" (2000) 3 JWIP 265.
  • Kumar U, An Introduction to the African Industrial Property System (National University of Lesotho 1993).
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  • Ncube CB, Intellectual Property Policy, Law and Administration in Africa: Exploring continental and sub-regional co-operation (Routledge 2016).
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  • Nwauche ES, "An Evaluation of the African Regional Intellectual Property Right Systems" (2003) 6 JWIP 101.
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  • Ouma M, "Evolutions of Copyright Law in Africa: Compatibility with International Norms and Directions" in T-E Synodinou (ed), Pluralism or Universalism in International Copyright Law (Kluwer 2019).
  • Peukert A, "The colonial legacy of the international copyright system" in U Röschenthaler and M Diawara (eds), Copyright Africa: How intellectual property, media and markets transform immaterial cultural goods (Sean Kingston 2016).
  • de Plessis ED, Adams & Adams Practical Guide to Intellectual Property in Africa (Pretoria University Law Press 2012).
  • Wadlow C, "The British Empire patent 1901 - 1923: the 'global' patent that never was" [2006] IPQ 311.
  • Wood-Kahari BM, "ARIPO" in E Fennessy (ed), Trademarks Throughout the World (Clark Boardman Callaghan) (looseleaf, October 2019 Update)

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