Webinaries will be organized this year in various fields of online intellectual property. Participation will be made by call for candidates on the OAPI website and through national liaison structures (SNL) and partner structures. These are mainly the following themes:
| Themes | Period | Place |
| Protection of distinctive signs | ||
| 1. Online deposit procedures for marks registration | April 25 | Online |
| 2. How to create and protect your brand at OAPI? | May 29 | Online |
| Protection of technical creations: invention certificate | ||
| 3. How to protect and manage the creations of employees, trainees, students and students? | June 26 | Online |
| Protection of aesthetic and ornamental creations | ||
| 4. Fashion and design professions: what protective and defense mechanisms of created works? | July 24 | Online |
| Protection of literary and artistic works | ||
| 5. Architectural works and intellectual property: what mechanisms for the protection and defense of the works created? | September 11 | Online |
| 6. Works of visual arts and music: what protective and defense mechanisms by the intellectual property system | November 25 | Online |
| OAPI Tribune (Webinars for professionals in the PI system) | Last Thursday of: April/June/September/November | Line |
| On -demand training | Permanent | Face -to -face/line |
Protection of distinctive signs
1 - Online deposit procedures for marks registration requests
Objective :
Outtail users on the new online registration procedure for brands
Educational objectives:
Participants must be capable of the training of:
- Control the online filing procedure for requests to register brands at the OAPI;
- Make an online brand registration request at the OAPI.
Indicative program:
Online filing procedure for brands registration requests.
Public concerned:
Agents, industrial property advice, SNL staff, lawyer, lawyer etc.
2 - How to create and protect your brand at OAPI?
Objective
Provide economic actors with knowledge necessary to develop and protect their marks to the OAPI.
Educational objectives
Participants must be capable of training:
- To know the criteria of a good brand;
- To know the brand protection request procedure at the OAPI.
Public concerned:
Marketing/communication/IT managers, communication agencies, corporate lawyer, lawyers, agents, managers of SMEs/SMIs.
Indicative program:
- Criteria of a good brand;
- OAPI brand protection procedure;
- Practical case.
Participation condition : register online
Protection of technical creations
How to protect and manage the creations of employees, trainees and students?
Goals
Provide public skills research on the management of inventions of employees, trainees and trainees.
Educational objectives
Participants must be capable of the training of:
- Assess the constraints and legal risks in the presence of inventions of employees, trainees and trainees;
- Identify the rights and duties of employees, trainees and trainees in terms of inventions;
- Avoid or resolve potential conflicts between salaried inventors and their employer.
Program
- Different types of inventions/creations of employees, trainees and trainees;
- Identification and evaluation process of employees, trainees and trainees;
- Legal regime applicable to the inventions/creations of employees, trainees and trainees;
- Practical management of inventions of employees, trainees and trainees.
Public concerned
Intellectual property managers, managers of valuation structures, patent engineers, lawyers, human resources managers.
Protection of cosmetic creations
Fashion and design professions: what mechanisms for the protection and defense of the works created?
Objective
Provide the actors with fashion and design of skills necessary to ensure the protection and defense of their creations.
Educational objectives:
Participants must be capable of the training of:
- Identify adapted protection tools for their creations;
- Define and implement a protection strategy adapted to fashion and design creations;
- Identify and apply legal defense relating to fashion and design creations.
Program
- Legal tools for the protection of fashion and design creations;
- Protection strategies adapted to the fashion and design sector;
- Contractualization techniques in the fashion and design sector;
- Creation defense strategies.
Public concerned
Responsible for fashion houses, managers of the factors of fashion and design actors, stylists, designers, creators, intellectual property advice.
Participation condition : register online
Protection of literary and artistic works
1 - Architectural works: what mechanisms for protecting and defense of the works created?
Goals
Provide actors in the field of architecture, peasantry and skills development to protect and defend their architectural works.
Educational objectives
Participants must be capable of the training of:
- Know the tools and procedures for the protection of architectural works;
- Know how to value and secure your architectural works;
- Knowing how to defend your rights on an architectural work;
Program
- Diversity of architectural works;
- Tools for the protection of architectural works;
- Operating mechanisms of the architectural work;
- Counterfeiting of architectural works.
Public concerned
Architecture and engineering firm, order of architects, architects, urban planners, engineers, landscapers, engineering and architects, real estate company, construction company, lawyers, agents.
Participation condition : register online
2 - Works of visual arts and music: what protective and defense mechanisms by the intellectual property system
Goals
Provide actors in the image and skills sound field to better protect and defend their creations.
Educational objectives
Participants must be capable of training:
- To know the different protection tools that exist for works of visual arts and music;
- Identify the appropriate protection tool for their creations;
- To know the rights and obligations of the various actors of the image and sound professions (creator, employee author, producer, supplier, etc.).
- To identify the different types of contracts attached to image law.
Public concerned
Communication agencies, production houses, broadcasting organizations, journalists, communicators, content providers.
Training content
- Types of creation in the field of image and sound;
- Tools for protecting visual arts and music;
- Holder of rights on creations in the field of image and sound;
- Operating contracts of works created in the field of image and sound.
Participation condition : register online
Useful addresses
For any information, please contact:
- Denis Ekani (apide) intellectual property academy of the OAPI
BP 887 Yaoundé (Cameroon)
Tel: (237) 222 20 57 00/222 20 57 67
E-mail: apide@oapi.int
- University of Yaoundé II (Cameroon)
BP 1365 Yaoundé, BP 18 SOAP
Tel: (237) 22 21 34 04
E-mail: mail@univ-yaounde2.org
- National Polytechnic Institute Houphouet Boigny (Ivory Coast)
BP 1093 Yamoussoukro
Tel: +225 30 64 67 00/30 64 66 66/30 64 67 99
E-mail: info@inphb.edu.ci
- The University of Yaoundé II
BP: 18 SOA
Such : +237 2 42 32 21 34
- Thomas Sankara University (Burkina Faso)
12 BP 417 Ouagadougou 12
Tel: (+226) 25 36 99 60
E-mail: contact@uts.bf
