African Regional Industrial Property Organization (ARIPO)
11 Natal Road
Belgravia
Harare
Zimbawe

P.O. Box 4228

Tel +263 0242 794065
Fax +263 47 94 07 2
Mail mail@aripo.org
www.aripo.org

Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle (OAPI) (AIPO/OAPI)
158, place de la prefecture
B.P. 887
Yaoundé
Cameroon
Tel +237 22 20 57 00 or 22 20 39 31
Fax +237 22 20 57 27 or 22 20 57 21
Mail oapi@oapi.int
www.oapi.int

European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
Avenida de Europa, 4
03008 Alicante
Spain
Tel +34 965 139 100
Mail CustomerCare@euipo.europa.eu
www.euipo.europa.eu

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
34, Chemin des Colombettes
1211 Geneva 20
Switzerland
Tel +41 22 33 89 11 1
www.wipo.int

Beck Greener LLP Patent & Trade Mark Attorneys



Fulwood House, 12 Fulwood Place
London WC1V 6HR
United Kingdom (UK)
Tel + 44 20 7693 5600
Fax + 44 20 7693 5601
mail@beckgreener.com
www.beckgreener.com

Glub Center
Calle Italia 22
Local Bajo
03003 Alicante, Spain
Tel: +34 965 02 13 05
Fax: +34 965 02 13 09

Beck Greener LLP is one of the leading intellectual property firms, and one of the longest-established, having celebrated our 150th Anniversary in 2017. We provide advice, information and assistance relating to all aspects of registered and unregistered intellectual property, including trade marks, patents, designs and copyright to a wide range of clients across a number of commercial sectors.

Our experience and expertise in trade marks is recognised by the industry. The firm is amongst the top filers of UK and EU Trade Mark Applications in the UK, and ranked number 2 for appearances at oral hearings before the UK IPO over the last five years (Source: CITMA Review). We have an enviable record of success before both the British and European trade mark offices, and in the courts.

The firm has offices in London and Spain, and continues to provide the full range of services relating to both UK and European Union Trade Marks and Designs post-Brexit.

We file and prosecute applications to register trade marks at the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO), EU IPO, Irish Patent Office and the World Intellectual Property Organisation. Our trade mark services include:

- Strategic portfolio management
- Searching, due diligence and risk management
- Drafting specifications of goods and services
- Filing and prosecuting trade mark applications
- Filing and prosecuting oppositions, and invalidity and revocation actions
- Enforcement of rights
- Maintenance of registered IP rights
- Litigation and advising in IP disputes
- Advice on unregistered design rights, industrial design and copyright
- Transactional advice and documentation including assignments and licences
- Renewals

FMO Law Firm



Dr. Franz-Martin Orou, LL.M.
Kapitelgasse 7/5
1170 Vienna
Austria (AT)
Tel + 43 1 890 257 10
Fax + 43 1 890 257 50
office@fmo.co.at
www.fmo.eu

Our Law Firm was founded in 2004 in Vienna/Austria as a full service “IP-boutique”. We are dedicated to profound research and tailor made service, herewith generating the best solutions for our clients. All that with highly-competitive pricing.
We are representing domestic and international clients that are doing business internationally: global sourcing, global producing, global selling.
In case you need assistance in IP matters in Austria and the European Union (Community Trademark or Community Design) we will be happy to assist you.

The focus of FMO Law Firm is on Intellectual Property Law (IP): Trade Mark Law, Design Law and Copyright Law. Furthermore, we are specialized in selected fields of Business Law, e.g. unfair competition law.

INLEX Africa



Franck Soutoul
Immeuble Standard Charter Bank Yaoundé - 2ème Etage gauche, Avenue de L'Indépendance, PO Box 4057
Yaoundé
Cameroon (CM)
Tel +237 677 364 416
fsoutoul@inlex-africa.com
www.inlex-africa.com

Your contact persons:
Mr. Franck SOUTOUL, fsoutoul@inlex-africa.com
Mr Ndala AMINOU naminou@inlex-africa.com

INLEX AFRICA is the first French Intellectual Property Firm located in AFRICA particularly in the heart of OAPI region in Yaounde (Cameroon) .

After developing continuously its expertise during 25 years in France, Franck SOUTOUL and Eric Schahl have decided to open an office for the support and protection of their client’s interests in AFRICA.

Therefore and since June 2014, we opened our office in Yaounde (Cameroon) close to the OAPI as the exclusive regional organization covering 17 countries

Indeed OAPI system is unique as it affords to the Applicant a single regional title of protection valid in 17 French-speaking African countries namely: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Comoros.

Thanks to its long experience in France and its European working know-how, the team INLEX AFRICA will be the best representative to reply to your legal or administrative queries, and is able to intervene on the whole African territory, thanks to the opening in October 2016 of 2 hubs in Mauritius (Jinfei Cyber City) and in Morocco (Casablanca).

Nico Halle & Co. Law Firm



Vanessa Halle
1st Floor SHALOM Building, Ancienne Route, Bonaberi
4876 Douala
Cameroon (CM)
Tel +237 673 876 940
hallelaw@hallelaw.com
www.hallelaw.com

Your contact person:
Ms. Vanessa Halle – hallelaw@hallelaw.com

Founded in 1986, we have a track record of successfully and efficiently managing the Intellectual Property rights of our local, international, and multinational clients. In a world where Intellectual Property rights are a major asset to businesses, and steadily becoming an integral part of corporate transactions, we identify, protect these rights at each stage of the innovation process, and provide strategic advice that enables you exploit your Intellectual Property rights fully, and successfully manage and extract value from your IP assets.

Our IP practice has a general focus on Africa, and a specific focus on OAPI (African Intellectual Property Organization) comprising Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros Islands, Congo (Republic of), Equatorial Guinea, Guinea Conakry, Guinea Bissau, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Togo).

We provide a complete spectrum of services in Patents, Trademarks, Domain names, Copyrights, Designs, and other related rights. Our non-exhaustive IP services include filings, prosecution, investigation and watch service, searches & due diligence, Litigation and Enforcement, ADR, licensing, portfolio management, Corporate transactions, Annuities and Renewals, Transactional advice (Assignments & transfer agreements, licensing, franchising, Supply, distribution and related commercial agreements) etc.

Saxinger Rechtsanwalts GmbH



Edisonstraße 1
4600 Wels
Austria (AT)
Tel +43 7242 65290-305
Fax +43 7242 65290-339
marken@saxinger.com
www.saxinger.com

TRADEMARK, COPYRIGHT, UNFAIR COMPETITION & DOMAIN LAW, DESIGN

Saxinger is an Austrian commercial law firm with Offices in Graz, Linz, Wels and Vienna.

We support you with pleasure in defending your intellectual property rights judicial and extrajudicial. We issue warning notices and enforce claims for injunctive relief, information, removal and damages, also in preliminary injunction proceedings.

In trademark law, we assist in the development of your brand strategies and implement them nationally and/or internationally.

With Trademark collisions, we conclude delimitation and prior rights agreements with the counter party or defend your labelling rights, also in court/official proceedings. The commercial exploitation of your trademark rights with trademark acquisition and trademark license agreements is also one of our core competencies.

We will carry out trademark applications for you at the competent trademark offices (ÖPA/EUIPO/WIPO). If a foreign national trademark is to be registered, we can also call on our alliance partners in the SCHINDHELM Alliance (Europe and Asia).

APL Patents

Lesi Ukrainki Blvd 24
01133 Kiev
Ukraine (UA)

gabriel Rechtsanwälte

Lessingplatz 4
24118 Kiel
Germany (DE)

Scanlen and Holderness

74 Jason Moyo Avenue
263 Harare
Zimbabwe (ZW)