The Regional Integration of African Trade Mark Laws

This book addresses the need to harmonise trade mark laws in Africa in view of the envisaged African common market. Economic integration cannot flourish without an effective regional legal framework. The fragmentation in trade mark protection in Africa is evidenced by the existing two sub-regional organisations, namely, the African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation (ARIPO) whose members are mostly Anglophone countries and the Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle (OAPI) which generally caters for Francophone countries respectively.