Contemporary Issues in Intellectual Property Law in Africa

Olasupo Owoeye is Senior Lecturer in Law at Massey University, New Zealand, a stipendiary Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition Law, Munich, Germany and a Professor of Law at Lead City University, Nigeria. He is a law academic with research expertise in Intellectual Property Law and International Human Rights Law, especially Health and Development Rights. He was a Humboldt Research Fellow and Humboldt Alumni Fellow at the University of Augsburg, Germany between 2015 and 2023. He was also a Visiting Scholar at SOAS University of London in 2023. He is the founder of LAYEBS LAW, a law practice with offices in Australia, Nigeria, and New Zealand.

Introduction

1. Intellectual Property Rights and Investment Law in the AfCFTA

2. Public Interest Regulation of Patents and Investment Treaties in Africa

3. Recalibrating African Investment Treaty System to promote Access to Medicine

4. The Marginalisation of African States in the Negotiation of the TRIPS Agreement

5. Intellectual Property and Local Pharmaceutical Production: Defining the Need and Meeting the Challenge

6. After the WTO COVID-19 Waiver: Africa’s Way Forward

7. Public Health Governance, Intellectual Property, and the African Context: From Outrage to Action in Developing Regional Capability for Health Protection

8. The AFCFTA and Trade in Counterfeit Drugs: Adopting a Blockchain Technology Based Strategy to Ensure Patient Safety

9. Artificial Intelligence and the Patentability of AI Inventions

10. Artificial Intelligence Generated Works and the Copyright Dilemma: A Case Study of the United Kingdom and South Africa

11. “Gamechanger” lawsuit (Francisco Leong v (AFP)) as Platform for Interrogating Copyright Ownership of Photographic Works of Employees in Mass-Media Institutions in Nigeria