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Uganda’s Kainobwisho Elected Vice-Chair of World Intellectual Property Organization Conference

CEO ReporterThe Big StoryOctober 7, 2021October 7, 2021

The meetings of the Assemblies of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), which bring together WIPO’s 184 member states, has elected Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) Registrar General, Mercy K. Kainobwisho as Vice-Chair of the Conference. Saudi Arabia’s Shayea A. Alshayea was elected as Chair. Mercy K. Kainobwisho becomes the second Ugandan to be elected to a leading role at the WIPO Assemblies. In September 2019, Bemanya Twebaze, the former Registrar General and now Director General of the African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation (ARIPO) was elected President of the WIPO Advisory Committee on Enforcement, during the 14th session of the…

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URSB Partners With Higher Institutions to Protect Intellectual Property Innovations

CEO ReporterTechnology & InnovationFebruary 3, 2021February 3, 2021

Intellectual property (IP) protection is critical for protecting Uganda’s proprietary designs, processes, and inventions that, if leaked to competitors or made public, could ruin the country’s market advantage across the world. This was sounded by James Tonny Lubwama, the Manager, Patents & Industrial Designs at Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) at the 2nd Higher Education Partnerships in Sub Saharan Africa (HEPSSA) workshop at Makerere University in Kampala recently. The HEPSSA project, supported by the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), aims to support the enrichment of engineering programmes that will lead to development of skills for the much needed engineering capacity…

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