UCT IP Unit

🎉 It's mAkE first anniversary! 🔧 #makeafricaeu has progressed collectively to enable #distributed #small #scale #manufacturing in #Africa & #Europe via an active & diverse #community of #DigitalInnovationHubs. 🎥 Watch the full video 👉 makeafricaeu.org/make-first-yea… #H2020

📌 Register for the launch of the African Maker Magazine to learn the powerful stories from #makerspaces here ➡️➡️ makeafricaeu.org/events/africa-… #makeafricaeu #H2020 @amnetwork___ @weareGIG @fablabbcn @fabcityglobal @AfricaOSH @GreentecF @Afrinnovation

An important @Hubiquitous2021 online event (9 Feb.) for forging connections between African and European #DigitalInnovationHubs @makeafricaeu @AfricanIP #makeafricaeu #H2020

Open AIR is honoured to be featured in the 2023 edition of The African Maker magazine, to be launched later this month. @amnetwork___ @makeafricaeu @AfricanIP #makeafricaeu #H2020

Happening NOW: @DesyOsas talking about the intersection between AI and IP - and the questionable DABUS patent in SA in particular - at the @UctLaw iNtaka Centre for Law & Technology. Also streamed live at bit.ly/3qYaBOV @lawtechlab @AfricanIP @IPChairUCT

As @WIPO 's IGC meets this week, please have a look again at our #multilateralmatters blog post concerning the GA's very recent decision to hold a diplomatic conference on genetic resources & associated TK by 2024 👇 @WendWendland

❗️Exciting news: After a deadlock for many years, WIPO's General Assembly has decided that by 2024, a diplomatic conference on genetic resources & associated TK should take place, possibly in SA. Prof @WendWendland reflects on the GA's "momentous" decision ip-unit.org/2022/multilate…

We've been quiet for a while but are back 👋 with a sobering #multilateralmatters post by Dr Bonginkosi Shozi on how unequal power relations & the agenda of high income countries led to a disappointing @wto #ipwaiver decision ip-unit.org/2022/multilate… #COVID19 @UctLaw @WendWendland

Our new #multilateralmatters blogpost is out now! Thanks once again to Prof @WendWendland for his insights. This time, he explains what "consensus" means in multilateral negotiations & whether it produces good agreements: ip-unit.org/2021/multilate…

Decolonising AI? Dr Rachel Adams delivers the 2021 Ben Beinart Memorial Lecture on this topic -followed by Dr Adams in conversation with @divinefuh (@huma_africa) & @TanveerJeewa. Tues 30 Nov - register at bit.ly/3bVZT3S. Supported by @webberwentzel - join us!

Our latest #multilateralmatters blog post is up- with further reflections on the BBNJ (biodiversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction) negotiations. Thanks @WendWendland & guest authors Carla Bengoa Rojas & @PagYendu for sharing your insights ip-unit.org/2021/multilate… @UctLaw

The High Court declared our current (c)Act unconstitutional, infringing rights of the blind & visually impaired. The Court has "read in" s19D of the (c) Bill to allow for better access. Order to be confirmed by @ConCourtSA 👏 @BlindSA_NGO & @SECTION27news blindsa.org.za/2021/09/21/dec…

It's fantastic to have our new student research assistants on board; already delivering great work. Welcome to the IP Unit team, Dr. Nathalie & Gabriel (LLM), Shréya (LLB) & Hanani (PhD)! Check out their profiles: ip-unit.org/people-2/ @UctLaw @Afrinnovation @lawtechlab

Check out our new #MultilateralMatters blogpost, this time written by guest contributor Charlene Musiza. On invitation by @WendWendland, she explores some conditions & factors that made it possible to conclude the Marrakesh Treaty so quickly: ip-unit.org/2021/multilate… @cee_divine

Last 2021 #copyx session "at UCT" tonight. I enjoyed it thoroughly & taking it online meant that we had many participants from other parts of South Africa, Africa & overseas. Thanks @UCT_Law_at_work !! @AfricanIP @UctLaw @BKCHarvard @lawtechlab @HarvardOnline #UCTWillRiseAgain

My Book, the eagerly awaited Copyright, Collective Management Organisations and Competition in Africa is finally out. Many thanks my PhD Supervisors @caro_ncube @tobyschonwetter for mentorship. To @IPChairUCT @AfricanIP @Afrinnovation @UctLaw @danwood_chirwa @Juta_ZA for support.

Pleased to share my piece in @JIPLP discussing provisions of the Geneva Act that could make it attractive to African countries and considerations for international GI registration for Oku White Honey from Cameroon! @AfricanIP academic.oup.com/jiplp/advance-…

@WendWendland 's latest #MultilateralMatters blogpost is up on the @AfricanIP website, this time on the intersection of IP and Indigenous names, words & symbols: ip-unit.org/2021/multilate…

ICYMI the 2020 issue of the 🇿🇦 #IP journal is online with contributions from @Nojeemlaw, Wim Alberts (@go2uj ), Lonias Ndlovu et al (@Univenofficial), @Fernand31465473 (former DG @_ARIPO) and Ndivhuwo Ishmel Moleya. Read the abstracts 👉#2020" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">jutajournals.co.za/south-african-… #@Juta_ZA

@Afrinnovation @QJerban Huge congratulations Dr @QJerban !!👏🏽

Congratulations to our #QEScholars @QJerban for successfully defending her PhD thesis, “Does Traditional Knowledge Have Gender? Unmasking the Experience of Female Traditional Knowledge-Holders in the Production of Iranian Saffron and Handwoven Carpets.” Well done Dr. @QJerban