Webinars will be organized this year in various areas of online intellectual property. Participation will be through a call for applications on the OAPI website and via the National Liaison Structures (NLS) and partner organizations. The main topics will be the following:
| Themes | Period | Place |
| Protection of distinctive signs | ||
| 1. Online filing procedures for trademark registration applications | April 25 | Online |
| 2. How to create and protect your trademark at OAPI? | May 29 | Online |
| Protection of technical creations: patent for invention | ||
| 3. How to protect and manage the creations of employees, interns, pupils and students? | June 26 | Online |
| Protection of aesthetic and ornamental creations | ||
| 4. Fashion and design professions: What mechanisms exist for the protection and defense of created works? | July 24 | Online |
| Protection of literary and artistic works | ||
| 5. Architectural works and intellectual property: what mechanisms exist for the protection and defense of created works? | September 11 | Online |
| 6. Works of visual art and music: What protection and defense mechanisms does the intellectual property system offer? | November 25 | Online |
| OAPI Forum (webinars for IP system professionals) | Last Thursday of: April/June/September/November | Line |
| On-demand training | Permanent | In-person/online |
PROTECTION OF DISTINCTIVE SIGNS
1 – Online filing procedures for trademark registration applications
Objective :
Equipping users with the new online trademark registration procedure
Educational objectives:
Participants should be able to, upon completion of the training:
- Mastering the online filing procedure for trademark registration applications with OAPI;
- Submit a trademark registration application online to OAPI.
Indicative program:
Online filing procedure for trademark registration applications.
Target audience:
Agents, industrial property consultants, SNL staff, legal professionals, lawyers, etc.
2 – How to create and protect your trademark at OAPI?
Objective
Equip economic actors with the necessary knowledge to develop and protect their brands at OAPI.
Educational objectives
Participants should be able to, upon completion of the training:
- To know the criteria of a good brand;
- To know the procedure for applying for trademark protection at OAPI.
Target audience:
Marketing/communication/IT managers, communication agencies, corporate lawyers, lawyers, agents, SME/SMI managers.
Indicative program:
- Criteria for a good brand;
- Procedure for protecting a trademark at OAPI;
- Case study.
Participation requirement : register online
PROTECTION OF TECHNICAL CREATIONS
How to protect and manage the creations of employees, interns and students?
Goals
Equip public research structures with skills in managing inventions by employees, trainees and interns.
Educational objectives
Participants should be able to, upon completion of the training:
- Assess the legal constraints and risks involved in inventions by employees, trainees and interns;
- Identify the rights and responsibilities of employees, trainees and interns with regard to inventions;
- To avoid or resolve potential conflicts between salaried inventors and their employer.
Program
- Different types of inventions/creations by employees, interns and trainees;
- Process for identifying and evaluating employees, trainees and interns;
- Legal framework applicable to inventions/creations of employees, trainees and interns;
- Practical management of inventions by employees, interns and trainees.
Target audience
Intellectual property managers, managers of technology transfer offices, patent engineers, lawyers, human resources managers.
PROTECTION OF AESTHETIC CREATIONS
Fashion and design professions: What mechanisms exist for protecting and defending created works?
Objective
Equipping fashion and design professionals with the skills necessary to ensure the protection and defense of their creations.
Educational objectives:
Participants should be able to, upon completion of the training:
- Identify the appropriate tools to protect their creations;
- Define and implement a protection strategy adapted to fashion and design creations;
- Identify and apply legal defenses related to fashion and design creations.
Program
- Legal tools for protecting fashion and design creations;
- Protection strategies tailored to the fashion and design sector;
- Contractualization techniques in the fashion and design sector;
- Strategies for defending creations.
Target audience
Heads of fashion houses, heads of umbrella organizations for fashion and design players, stylists, designers, creators, intellectual property consultants.
Participation requirement : register online
PROTECTION OF LITERARY AND ARTISTIC WORKS
1 – Architectural works: what mechanisms exist for the protection and defense of created works?
Goals
To equip actors in the fields of architecture, agriculture and land development with the skills to protect and defend their architectural works.
Educational objectives
Participants should be able to, upon completion of the training:
- To know the tools and procedures for protecting architectural works;
- Knowing how to enhance and secure one's architectural works;
- Knowing how to defend one's rights over an architectural work;
Program
- Diversity of architectural works;
- Tools for protecting architectural works;
- Mechanisms for exploiting architectural works;
- Counterfeiting of architectural works.
Target audience
Architecture and engineering firm, Order of Architects, architects, urban planners, engineers, landscape architects, engineering and architecture students, real estate company, construction company, lawyers, agents.
Participation requirement : register online
2 – Works of visual art and music: What protection and defense mechanisms does the intellectual property system offer?
Goals
Equipping actors in the field of image and sound with skills to better protect and defend their creations.
Educational objectives
Participants should be able to, upon completion of the training:
- To know the different protection tools that exist for works of visual art and music;
- To identify the appropriate protection tool for their creations;
- To know the rights and obligations of the different players in the image and sound professions (creator, salaried author, producer, supplier…).
- To identify the different types of contracts related to image rights.
Target audience
Communication agencies, production companies, broadcasting organizations, journalists, communicators, content providers.
Training content
- Types of creation in the field of image and sound;
- Tools for protecting works of visual art and music;
- Ownership of rights to creations in the field of image and sound;
- Exploitation contracts for works created in the field of image and sound.
Participation requirement : register online
USEFUL ADDRESSES
For any further information, please contact:
- Denis Ekani Academy of Intellectual Property (APIDE) of OAPI
BP 887 Yaoundé (Cameroon)
Tel: (237) 222 20 57 00 / 222 20 57 67
Email: apide@oapi.int
- University of Yaoundé II (Cameroon)
BP 1365 Yaoundé, BP 18 SOAP
Tel: (237) 22 21 34 04
Email: courier@univ-yaounde2.org
- Houphouët-Boigny National Polytechnic Institute (Ivory Coast)
BP 1093 Yamoussoukro
Tel: +225 30 64 67 00 / 30 64 66 66 / 30 64 67 99
Email: 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
Email: contact@uts.bf
