Intellectual property (IP) is critical in protecting and promoting innovations, creations, and inventions. It encompasses a wide range of legal rights, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and more. However, despite the growing importance of IP in today’s knowledge-based economy, women still face challenges in accessing and utilizing IP protections for their innovations. Therefore, empowering […]

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Professional summary Chinweizu is a Senior Associate in the Intellectual Property (IP) Department of Jackson, Etti & Edu and Deputy Head of the FMCG Sector. Her illustrious practice covers all aspects of Intellectual Property Law- prosecutions, transactions, and enforcement. She currently handles the portfolio of all European clients of the IP Department and has extensive […]

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As the world advances, new ventures in the media and internet world are emerging. One of the most recent enterprises that technological and internet evolution has witnessed is social media influence/influencing. According to Tech Target, social media influence is a term for an individual’s ability to affect other people’s thinking in a social media/online community. […]

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For reasons of adding to the national gross domestic product and growing the small and medium enterprises (SMEs), government should begin to see innovation as serious business, experts have said. Government should also see the need to sign various reviewed intellectual property (IP) laws in order to protect IP rights, encourage and boost the morale […]

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