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Intellectual Property Law for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students

This LibGuide provides essential resources, case law, journals, and study tools for undergraduate and postgraduate students to explore and deepen their understanding of Intellectual Property Law.

Journal Articles

Prescribed Articles Recommended Articles

Mupangavanhu Y ‘African Union rising to the need for a continental IP protection? The establishment of Pan-African Intellectual Property Organisation' (2015) 59 Journal of African Law 1-24

Adams & Adams Practical Guide to Intellectual Property in Africa Pretoria University Law Press Pretoria South Africa (2012)

Ogbodo JA ‘Beyond the “spaghetti”: assessing the role of the AfCTA Protocol on intellectual property in Africa’s complex regulatory environment’ (2024) Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 1-10

Dean OH ‘Unified intellectual property law system for Southern Africa’ (1994) 2 Juta’s Business Law 165-169

Adewopo A ‘Trade mark systems in Africa: A proposal for the harmonisation of the ARIPO and the OAPI Agreements on Marks’ (2005) 6 The Journal of World Intellectual Property 473-484

Kongolo T ‘The African Intellectual Property Organisations: The necessity of adopting one uniform system in Africa’ (2000) 3 Journal of World Intellectual Property 265-288

Nwauche ES ‘An evaluation of the African Regional Intellectual Property Right Systems’ (2003) 6 The Journal of World Intellectual Property 101-138

LA ‘New World of International Trademark Law’ (1998) 2 Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review 1 – 32

Godart B ‘IP crime: the new face of organised crime: From IP theft to IP crime’ (2010) 5 Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice 378-385

Chidede T ‘The role of intellectual property rights’ protection in advancing development in South Africa’ (2022) 26 Law Development and Democracy 168-189
Deere-Birkbeck C ‘The Politics of Intellectual Property Reform in Developing Countries: The Relevance of the World Intellectual Property Organisation’ (2008)113

Peukert A ‘Intellectual Property as an end in itself’ (2011) 33 European Intellectual Property Review 67-71

Cullet P and Kameri-Mbote P ‘International property protection and sustainable development- Towards a common African institutional framework and strategy: Background study for NEPAD’s steering committee for science and technology’ (2005) International Environmental Law Centre

Correa C ‘Implications of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and public health’ Health Economics and Drugs EDM Series No 12, WHO/EDM/PAR/2002.3 (2002)

Ncube CB ‘Harnessing intellectual property for development: Some thoughts on an appropriate theoretical framework’ (2013) 16/4 PER 371-372

Bourgeois JHJ, Burns TJ ‘Implementing paragraphs 6 of the DOHA Declaration on TRIPS and public health; the waiver solution’ (2002) 5 Journal of World Intellectual Property 835-864

Yu PK ‘TRIPS and its discontent’ (2006) 10 Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review 369-410

Adusei P ‘Regulatory diversity as key to the “myth” of drug patenting in sub-Saharan Africa’ (2010) Journal of African Law 26-50

Drahos P ‘Developing countries and international intellectual property standard- setting’ (2005) 5 The Journal of World Intellectual Property 765-789

Bhat TS ‘Amending TRIPS: A new hope for increased access to essential medicines’ (2008) 33 Brook Journal of International Law 615

Helfer ‘Towards a human rights framework for intellectual property’ (2007) University of California 973-1018

Kouletakis J ‘A critical examination of copyright limitations and exceptions for the visually impaired pertaining to literary works in South Africa in the local and global context’ (2014) 2 South African Intellectual Property Law Journal 1-35

Abbort F TRIPS and Human Rights: Preliminary reflections

Grant C ‘Geographical indications: Implications for Africa’ (2008) Tralac Trade Briefs

Du Bois M ‘Intellectual Property as a constitutional property: the South African approach’ (2012) SA Merc LJ 177-193

Lubinga M, Ngqangweni S, Nyhodo B ‘Geographical Indications (GISs) in the wine industry: Does it matter?’ Working Paper NAMC/WP/2017/04)1-20

Du Bois M ‘Justificatory Theories for Intellectual Property Viewed through the Constitutional Prism’ 2018 (21) PER / PELJ

Arowolo AL ‘A continental approach to protecting traditional knowledge systems and related resources in Africa’ (2009)
Scholtz G ‘Interaction between patent protection and access to essential medicines: The potential conflict between rights to health and property rights’ Duffield G ‘Protecting traditional knowledge and folklore’ (2003) 22 International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) and United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Dhai, A ‘Access to COVID-19 vaccines as a global public good: A coordinated global response based on equality, justice and solidarity is key’ (2021) 14(1) SAJBL 2  

Murillo SES ‘Fair or fraud: Has the Protocol amending TRIPS flourished or failed?’ (2017) Indiana International and Comparative Law Review 191-207

 

Banda C ‘Intellectual property and access to essential pharmaceuticals: Recent law and policy reforms in the Southern Africa Development Community region’ (2017) 31/1 Maryland Journal of International Law 44-78

 

Correa C ‘Will the amendment to the TRIPS Agreement enhance access to medicines’ (January 2019) Southern Centre Policy Brief 2

 

Karjiker S ‘Should South Africa adopt fair use? Cutting through the rhetoric’ (2021) 2 TSAR 240

 

Ncube CB and Oriakhogba DO ‘Monkey selfie and authorship in copyright law: The Nigerian and South African perspectives’ (2018) 21 PELJ 1-35

 

Ward T ‘An artificial intelligence machine, invented something new and useful,but the USPTO is not buying it’ (2023) 75 Maine Law Review 72-100

 
Abbott R ‘The artificial inventor project’ (2019) WIPO Magazine  

Thaldar D and Naidoo M ‘AI inventorship: The right decision?’ (2021) 21 South African Journal of Science 1-3

 

Hristov K ‘Artificial intelligence and the copyright dilemma’ (2017) 57 IDEA 431- 453

 

DARIA KIM ‘AI-Generated Inventions: Time to Get the Record Straight?’ (2020) 69(5) GRUR International, 443–456

 

Van der Merwe ‘Geographical Indication Protection in South Africa with particular reference to wines and the EU connection’ (2008) Journal for Juridical Science 111-117

 

Kireeva I and O’Connor B ‘Geographical indications and the TRIPS Agreement’ (2010) The Journal of World Intellectual Property Law 275-303

 

Bienabe E and Marie-Vivien D ‘Institutionalising Geographical Indications in Southern Countries: Lessons Learned from Basmati and Rooibos’ (2017) World Development 58-67

 

Blakeney M and Mengistie G ‘Geographical Indications in Africa: Opportunities, Experiences and Challenges’ (2017). (2016) 38(5) European Intellectual Property Review 1- 29

 

Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilisation to the Convention on Biological Diversity, 2010

 

Ragavan S ‘Protection of traditional knowledge’ (2001) 2 Minnesota Intellectual Property Review 1

 

Cullet P ‘Intellectual property rights and food security in the South’ (2004) 7 Journal of World Intellectual Property 131-261

 
   

 

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