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…
URSB Partners With Higher Institutions to Protect Intellectual Property Innovations

An image of the low-cost ventilator prototype developed by Makerere University to aid in the treatment of patients with COVID-19. Courtesy photo



