Africa is 54 countries and three separate filing systems — OAPI, ARIPO and national registries. COEUR IP is your single point of contact for all of them: one brief, one currency, one person answering. Cost-effective, time-effective, and coordinated from the United States.
Barrister Vanessa Halle — Managing Partner
Protecting a brand or an invention across Africa means working across three separate systems and dozens of registries, each with its own rules, languages and deadlines. Handled piecemeal it becomes slow and expensive.
COEUR IP makes it straightforward. You brief us once, in English or French, and we coordinate protection across the continent through our practice in Cameroon and a network of associates in each jurisdiction. Cost-effective, time-effective, and with one person who knows your portfolio.
We act for brand owners and innovators, and equally for law firms who need a dependable correspondent in Africa.
Africa is 54 countries and three filing systems. Which one reaches your market decides what protection costs and how long it takes.
From clearance searches through to enforcement against counterfeiters, across the whole life of the right.
Searches, filing and prosecution, oppositions and cancellations, renewals, licensing and franchising.
Patentability searches, drafting and prosecution, annuities, technology transfer and enforcement.
Customs recordal, border enforcement, investigations, and civil and criminal action.
Licensing, assignments and royalties, due diligence and valuation, recordal at the registries.
Registrability, filing and prosecution, trade dress, portfolio management and infringement actions.
Registration and transfer, monitoring, dispute and recovery proceedings, website takedowns.
Franchise and licensing agreements, operations manuals, jurisdiction-specific structuring.
Plant variety applications, registrability opinions, licensing and enforcement.
Advertising compliance, comparative and misleading advertising, broadcast regulation.
Cease-and-desist strategy, registry oppositions and cancellations, court proceedings.
Send your mark or invention and the countries that matter to your business. You'll get back which filing system reaches each one, what it costs, how long it takes, and where you are currently exposed. If there is nothing worth filing yet, we will say so.
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