Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly
BOOK REVIEW - NIGERIA’S FOREIGN INVESTMENT LAWS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS.
NIGERIA’S FOREIGN INVESTMENT LAWS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS. Edited by B. Sodipo, LL.B., LL.M., B.L., Partner, Chief G. O. Sodipo & Co., and B. Fagbemi, LL.B., B.L., LL.M., Ph.D., Senior Partner, O. A. Fagbemi & Co. Intellectual Property Law Unit, QMW, and Common Law Institute of Intellecutal Property, Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Sq., London WC1B 5DR (1994) xxvi and 176 pp., plus vii pp. Appendix. Hardback £15; Paperback £10.
Piracy and counterfeiting are challenges to trade in, or with, any developing country; and ones which significantly deter any developer or transferor of technology unless a robust defence can be mounted against the pirates. Recognizing this, the Nigerian Government has recently made many legal and fiscal changes aiming both to provide an effective regime against piracy and actively to encourage technology transfer to their country, as well as stimulating their own innovation by protection.
Arising out of the international conference which took place in November 1992 under the joint auspices of the Intellectual Property Law Unit of Queen Mary and Westfield College’s Centre for Commercial Law Studies, and the Common Law Institute of Intellectual Prop
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