international legal instruments

The text deals primarily with the law relating to intellectual property protection in Uganda. With respect to copyright, it considers the developments from the pre-colonial period to the current period and takes into account international developments that influenced the current law, the Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Act, 2006. Relevant international legal instruments are also analyzed. The text then examines design law from a historical and current position enshrined in the Industrial Property Act, 2014 (IPA). There then follows a discussion of the background and nature of patent protection based on the IPA focusing on the requirements for protection, ownership, infringement, defenses, and remedies. A similar approach is adopted with regard to trademarks but with the focus being on the Trade Marks Act, 2010 and the related and alternative legal protection under passing off which emphasizes the protection of the goodwill in a trade. Throughout all the chapters reference is made to the corresponding Kenyan and Tanzanian laws and relevant cases in order to give the reader a regional appreciation of the subject.