Your concepts and ideas, innovations, brand names and brand elements are all part of your firm’s assets and must be protected. From traditional firms needing advisory for patents, copyrights and trademarks to contemporary firms and entertainment outfits requiring our services for music rights, film rights and contracts, the expertise of our IP portfolio and general advisory practice group is unrivalled in Nigeria. We provide advisory on brand names and their usage, creative works and inventions, product development, licensing and exploitation of intellectual property rights, as well as acquisition and transfer of technology. We also handle registration, recordals, assignment and licensing arrangements and work with our dispute resolution practice to coordinate litigation and settlement strategies for clients in the case of IP infringement.

Our team provides general IP advisory to leading international and continental brands in Nigeria. Our IP team has handled global trademark registration, assignment, licensing and sub-licensing for one of Africa’s largest conglomerates across 20 countries spread across Africa and Europe. We also represented the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria in a copyright violation suit, as well as a leading detergent manufacturing company in passing off and trademark opposition actions.