Global Innovation Policy Center

Primary Sources

• The Copyright (Amendment) Regulations, 2011 (2011)
• Constitutive Act of the African Union (July 10, 2001)
• Environmental Management and Co-ordination (Conservation of Biological Diversity and Resources, Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit Sharing) Regulations, 2006 (2006)
• Guide to Patenting in Kenya, 1995 (1995)
• Guideline for the examination of Patents, Utility Models, and Industrial Designs (2007)
• Harare Protocol on Patents and Industrial Designs Within the Framework of the African Regional Industrial Property Organization (ARIPO) (October 24, 1984)
• Lusaka Agreement on the Creation of the African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) (February 15, 1978)
• Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Expressions Act, 2016 (2016)
• The Competition Act No. 12 of 2010 (2011)
• The Copyright (Amendment) Act (Act No. 9 of 1995) (1995)
• The Copyright Act, 2001 (Chapter 130) (Revised Edition 2014) (2014)
• The Copyright Regulations, 2004 (2004)
• The Industrial Property Act, 2001 (2001)
• The Industrial Property Regulations, 2002 (2002)
• The National Policy on Traditional Knowledge, Genetic Resources and Traditional Cultural Expressions, 2009 (2009)
• The Trade Marks (Amendment) Act (Act No. 1 of 1984) (1984)
• The Trade Marks (Amendment) Act (Act No. 5 of 1994) (1984)
• The Trade Marks Rules (1982)
• Trade Marks Act (Chapter 506) (Revised Edition 2009) (2009)
• Treaty for the Establishment of the East African Community (July 1, 2000)

Secondary Sources

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• Capital FM (2016), “Longhorn lost Sh450mn in 2016 to book piracy”, 8/19/2016
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• Hendrik de Lange (2015), “Patents in Kenya”, 3/12/2015
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  “”, 12/17/2014
• IP Kenya (2014), “Test Case on Liability for Online Copyright Infringement: Music Industry Players Sue ISPs, Telcos and Government”, 1/26/2016
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• Kenya National Library Science (2015), “ICT Policy”, June 2015
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• KIPI (2014), “Duration of certificate of registration of an industrial design”
• KIPI (2016), “Industrial property Journal No. 2016/07”, 7/31/2016
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• Larica Onam (2015), “Hitting Counterfeit where it Hurts”, 8/26/2015
• Michael Best/Bric Wall Blog (2014), “Time Period and Burden of Proof Requirements when Requesting Revocation of a Patent in Kenya”, 1/15/2014
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• Republic of Kenya (2016), “Official First Draft of Public Sector Information Security Policy”
• Rodl&Partners (2015), “Brand Protection in Kenya”, October 2015
• Rouse Africa (2015), “Anti-Piracy Devices for Audio Visual Works in Kenya”, 9/14/2015
• Rouse Africa (2015), “ARIPO v National Courts – Two cases in Kenya illustrate the di_x0000_culties countries face handling ARIPO patents.”, 9/27/2015
• Rouse Africa (2015), “ARIPO-ACS39: Proposal to amend the Harare Protocol”, 1/18/2016
• Rouse Africa (2015), “Kenya Copyright Boards Recent Figures on Enforcement and Raids in 2015”, 9/21/2015
• Tabitha Kiriti Nganga (2013), “Barriers to trade: the case of Kenya”
• The Scinnovent Center (2014), “Stuck on the road to the market: Why Kenya suffers from stunted innovations”
• The Scinnovent Center (2015), “Industrial Property Rights Acquisition in Kenya: Facts, figures and trends”, March 2015
• The Scinnovent Center/IP Kenya (2015), “New Study on Patent, Utility Model and Industrial Design Activity in Kenya from 1990 to 2014”, 4/20/2015
• Victor Agolla (2015), “Intellectual Property-A case review of Kenya’s IT sector”, 5/18/2015
• Wangui Ngechu (2015), “Gov’t destroys Ksh 50M worth of counterfeit cigarettes”, 6/26/2015
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• WIPO Magazine (2016), “Strengthening Kenya’s IP Landscape”, August 2016