On Tuesday 14th January 2020, the partners and staff of our office in Yaoundé, Ekeme Lysaght SARL, was pleased to receive a delegation from OAPI for a tour of the facilities and discussions with the whole team. The Director General of OAPI was represented by Mr Maurice Batanga (Director of Legal Affairs), accompanied by Mr Fouda and Mrs Simo.   The photo shows the delegation with representatives of the Ekeme Lysaght team.

Always proud to support a good cause, Lysaght entered four of our team into this year's Hawksford Castle Chase, raising money to support Jersey Heritage. Whilst the weather wasn't exactly welcoming, as you can see from their smiling faces, everybody had a good time, and our team from the Patents Department even won a trophy for being the fastest mixed team in the race!  

Steve Le Feuvre has been attending the BIPF/FICPI Sweden 2019 BRICS IP Forum this week. The event took place at PRV, the Swedish Patent and Registration Office in Stockholm, and saw delegates attending from all over the world.  This picture was taken during the opening speech by the Director General of the PRV, Peter Strômbäck. This forum was a good opportunity to hear the latest developments in IP protection in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, which was inevitably...