Law4216: Intellectual Property Law

This module aims at providing students with knowledge and understand of the specificities of intellectual property rights (IPs) as kind of property as well as the peculiar legal norms governing IPs.  It looks at the Rwandan legislation on intellectual property in terms of different IPs recognized by that legislation as well as the conditions of their respective protection. It also looks at the national, regional and international institutional frameworks on the protection of IPs.