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Adams & Adams
The Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB), in collaboration with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), convened a comprehensive two-day training seminar on ‘collective management...
Byenkya, Kihika & Co. Advocates
Uganda is an East African Country that follows the common law system as a former colony of Great Britain. Intellectual Property law in Uganda thus falls under this system.
Adams & Adams
On 5th February 2021, Uganda published their Trademark (Amendment) Regulations No. 9 of 2021 (the Amendment)) which amends Trademark Regulations No.58 of 2012 (the Regulations).
Adams & Adams
ARIPO, with support of the Government of Uganda is organising a Diplomatic Conference for the Adoption of the Draft Protocol on Voluntary Registration of Copyright and Related in Kampala, Uganda from the 23rd to the 24th of July 2021.
ENS
Professor Patrick Engeu Ogwang, a Ugandan pharmacist, has claimed to have invented a treatment for COVID-19 named Covidex.
Adams & Adams
The Uganda Registration Service Bureau (URSB) has issued public notices calling for the renewal of expired trade mark registrations.
Inventa
Uganda's trademark regulations have been amended, with 26 changes to provisions in the Trademark Regulations 9/2021.
Adams & Adams
Uganda has recently published their Trademark (Amendment) Regulations No. 9 of 2021 (the Amendment) which amends Trademark Regulations No.58 of 2012 (the Regulations).
Inventa
Uganda is located at the heart of sub-Saharan Africa and is bordered by South Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Adams & Adams
In December 2019, Adams & Adams Partner, Nishan Singh, attended a mediation hearing for a trade mark infringement matter filed at the Commercial Court in Kampala.
ENS
The issue of who holds the copyright in national anthems is not one that comes up much, but it is one that the Ugandan Court of Appeal recently had to consider.
Angualia Busiku & Co. Advocates
What is a trade mark? Different authorities have given the meaning of a trademark.
Angualia Busiku & Co. Advocates
Registration of trademarks in Uganda is enabled by the Principal Legislation on trademarks in Uganda the Trademarks Act No.7 of 2010 that repealed the Trademarks Act Cap 217.
Angualia Busiku & Co. Advocates
Opposition may be made by any person claiming prior rights to exclusive use of the mark or any other interested person that has sufficient grounds.
ENS
The Industrial Property Bill that was passed on the 22nd August 2013 was accepted into Ugandan law on the 6th January 2014.
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