Geneva, Switzerland; The meetings of the Assemblies of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), which bring together WIPO’s 184 member states, has elected Uganda Registration Services Bureau Registrar General, Mercy K. Kainobwisho as Vice-Chair of the Conference. Saudi Arabia’s Shayea A. Alshayea was elected as Chair. The meeting of WIPO Assemblies, which runs from October […]
Kampala; The Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) and the Stanbic Business Incubator (SBIL) have today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which will see 500 micro, medium and small enterprises (MSMEs) trained and supported to become compliant and sustainable businesses annually for the next five years. The partnership and collaboration will focus on training SMEs […]
Bulange, Mengo; The Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB), the body in-charge of marriage registration in Uganda, together with the Buganda Kingdom have partnered to support traditional marriage registration and practices across communities. The two institutions are currently training a team of Buganda Kingdom Events Spokesmen (Aboogezi b’emikolo) on the different cultural and legal requirements of […]
The 40th Session of the Administrative Council held in Harare, Zimbabwe from 5th to 7th December 2016, identified the need to adopt a Protocol on voluntary registration of Copyright and Related Rights under the ARIPO framework and hence approved a roadmap for the establishment of a Voluntary Registration and Notification system at Africa Regional Intellectual […]
Kampala; The 11thExtraordinary Session of the Administrative Council of the African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) will be held from 23rd to 26th August 2021 at the Speke Resort Munyonyo. The main objective of the Extraordinary Session of the Administrative Council is to endorse the draft Protocol on Voluntary Registration of Copyright and Related Rights that was reviewed […]
Kampala; The African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO), with support from the Government of Uganda through the Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office, is organizing a Diplomatic Conference for the Adoption of the Draft Protocol on Voluntary Registration of Copyright and Related Rights to take place in Kampala, Uganda from 20th […]
Kampala; Transformation of Uganda into a modern, prosperous society as laid out in the National Development Plan III will largely depend on how fast Ugandanscan harness, protect and utilize intellectual property in a manner that encourages innovation and creativity. As part of the strategy to promote the realization of this goal, the Uganda Registration Services Bureau […]
Kampala; Faced with a global pandemic, innovators in Uganda have responded by developing breakthrough solutions to address local and global needs. Intellectual property on the other hand has played an integral role in the creation of innovations to solve most of the challenges from COVID-19. With multiple businesses and the overall economy brought to a slowdown […]
Bwebajja, Kampala; Uganda’s national Intellectual property office, the Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) has this afternoon concluded a two-day virtual training on intellectual property (IP) and mechanisms for dealing with trademark counterfeiting and copyright piracy for police officers undertaking the Senior Command Course, at the Police Senior Command and Staff College, Bwebajja. The training was […]
Kampala: The Registrar General of the Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) today hosted a breakfast meeting with media editors and journalists to enhance their outstanding partnership and stress the critical role the media has played in supporting URSB services. The meeting was setup to introduce the core team of Top Management, launch the URSB Journal that […]
