Webinar "The legal regime of counterfeiting in the Bangui Agreement"

Within the framework of the conference series "Comparative Intellectual Property Law", the Center for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) is pleased to organize, in collaboration with the African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI), a conference on the theme “The legal regime of counterfeiting in the Bangui Agreement”.

The conference will take place on 06 May 2021 from 18:00 to 20:00 (CEST) online via ZOOM.

Speaker :

• Denis L. BOHOUSSOU, Director General of the African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI)

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The seminar will be held in French and will be moderated by Yann Basire, Associate Professor at CEIPI, University of Strasbourg, Director General and Director of the French section of CEIPI.

Summary

The fight against counterfeiting is an important issue for an intellectual property office, as it guarantees the confidence of users in an intellectual property system. A rigorous fight against counterfeiting requires not only raising awareness but also effective repression. This is what the Bangui Agreement has endeavoured to do by enacting rules ranging from the qualification of acts of counterfeiting to sanctions.

This presentation will provide an opportunity to make a comparative study of the legal rules on counterfeiting in the Bangui Agreement of 1999, some of whose annexes are still in force, and the new Bangui Agreement of 2015, which entered into force on 14 November 2020

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