Announcing the Winners of Canada’s IP Writing Challenge 2021

African Patent Offices Not Fit for Purpose

Patents are public documents, issued to inventors by individual states, certifying that the named inventor has been granted a limited monopoly to exclude other persons from working, selling or using an identified invention without the consent or permission of the inventor or her/his assignees or successors-in-title during the lifespan of the patent. The regime of […]

A Promise Betrayed? Rethinking the Clerical Natures of IPRs Practice in the Third World

Ikechi Mgbeoji is an Associate Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School and a member of IP Osgoode. For more than one hundred years, the branch of law known as intellectual property rights (IPRs) has been treated by universities and colleges in the Third World as an after-thought, an appendage to other disciplines of […]

IPRs and the Second Coming of a Knowledge Economy: From Anomie to Utopia?

Ikechi Mgbeoji is an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. An interesting phenomenon in civilised circles these days is the wonderful ability of both the popular and academic commentariat to reduce or at least purport to reduce complex issues to convenient and potable sound-bites. Perhaps, the benevolence of "experts" in sparing members of the public […]