Services – Penguide

Our Services

Penguide is organised around three key activities, all focused on Africa and African economies: research, legal and policy advisory and provision of training and training materials.

Research services

Penguide’s research delivers insights focused on Africa and African countries in the spheres of intellectual property and technology, providing evidence, context and nuance for policies and decisions affecting economies in Africa. We analyse court judgments and government actions to provide insights for practical application

Africa intellectual property decisions and legislative reforms round-up

Collaborating with other researchers and legal practitioners and published by Oxford University Press, Chijioke provides an annual round-up and analysis of significant court decisions and legislative reforms across Africa.

Africa Correspondent

Chijioke serves as Africa Correspondent for Justia-ranked “Most Popular Intellectual Property Law Blawg” of all time, The IPKat Blog and in that capacity writes and promotes writing on copyright, patent, trade mark, designs, info-tech, privacy and confidentiality issues from an African perspective.

Negotiating the Intellectual Property Protocol: Priorities and Opportunities for Nigeria

Chijioke writes with other researchers and recommends key policy considerations that should form Nigeria’s negotiation priorities on intellectual property rights for Nigeria’s participation in the negotiation of the Intellectual Property Protocol of the Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA agreement).

Legal and policy advisory

Penguide assists individuals, institutions, governments providing legal and transaction advice that enable them to navigate the gamut of regulatory issues associated with intellectual property (copyright, industrial designs, trade marks, proprietary confidential information, trade secrets, patents, etc.) and (emerging) technologies. Our specialty is translating complex academic research into practical advice.

Some of our legal and policy advisory work include

Provided legal advisory services to a US-based technology development company contemplating a product launch infor the Nigerian sports sector.
Advised a multiple award-winning IP owner and influencer with respect to participation in three consecutive seasons of Coke Studio Africa (TV show) organized by The Coca Cola Company.
Provided legal support and advisory services for a music talent and social media influencer on its participation in a media campaign for the 2015 and 2019 general elections in Nigeria.
Provided expert legal opinion and exit strategy for IP owner seeking to exit unfavourable contractual arrangements.
Conducted and facilitated workshops and trainings on IP and technology transactions.
Drafted and produced a suite of contractual precedents for various firms in the IP sector.

Training services and materials

Penguide runs bespoke, client-ordered workshops and training sessions to help individuals, businesses, public and private institutions, government institutions keep abreast of developments in African business sectors. We have created curricula and training materials at both professional and community levels.

Our training services and materials have covered varied subjects including intellectual property, technology and technology management, dual-use research, technology transfer, research and innovation security, etc.

We help people in solving legal issues

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