Marius Schneider/Vanessa Ferguson: Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in Africa

Abstract

The authors of ‘Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in Africa’, Marius Schneider and Vanessa Ferguson, both look back on more than 20 years of practical experience in protecting and enforcing IP rights in Africa. In a 2015 article of the same name, they already concluded that the enforcement of intellectual property rights in Africa remained a complex issue, largely due to the lack of harmonization in anti-counterfeiting measures. While the two authors observed steady progress at that time, Schneider and Ferguson now see a significant acceleration in this advancement. On close to 1000 pages, this book marks nothing less than the ‘beginning of a knowledge-sharing process’, as is described in the Preface. Closing a gap in legal literature, this is the first work dedicated to providing a detailed overview of IP rights enforcement in all 54 countries of the world’s second-largest and second-most populous continent. Written in plain language and...