Qualcomm Included introduced the launch of L2Pro Africa IP e-learning Platform, a free on-line coaching program designed to empower startups, SMEs, and researchers in Africa to guard, safe, and maximize their improvements.
This program has been created in collaboration with Adams and Adams, Africa’s main mental property (IP) regulation agency.
Offering Complete Coaching
The L2ProAfrica platform will present complete coaching on mental property fundamentals, together with patents, copyrights, emblems, and IP integration into enterprise fashions. This system attracts from globally relevant IP rules developed by IP regulation specialists for L2ProIndia and The Inventor’s Patent Academy within the US.
Each programs have been authored by IP regulation professors and EDI specialists who’ve made this complicated matter accessible and useable by inventors.
“In Africa, the place innovation and creativity are ample, the extent of patenting stays considerably decrease than in different areas.”, mentioned Sudeepto Roy, VP, Engineering, Qualcomm Included, and the lead of Qualcomm’s Africa Innovation Platform initiative.
“With solely miniscule share of world patents filed in Africa, we’re lacking out on the immense financial potential that the continent’s ingenuity holds. This new free on-line coaching program, L2ProAfrica, is a vital step in direction of empowering African inventors with the data and instruments they should defend their concepts and produce their innovations to life.
“We now have seen at first hand, the influence of comparable applications in Europe, US and in India, and are assured that by nurturing a tradition of mental property safety, we are able to foster financial development, create jobs, and rework Africa into a world hub of innovation.”
Specializing in People
A vital a part of the course, authored by attorneys at Adams and Adams, focuses on particular person submitting procedures for patents, industrial designs and emblems within the international locations of Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Ghana, Rwanda and inside the two African patent organisations, ARIPO and OAPI.
These step-by-step descriptions of per-country submitting necessities empower inventors to work together successfully with IP professionals akin to an IP legal professional and their respective IP places of work.
Innovating Packages Worldwide
The launch of L2ProAfrica enhances Qualcomm’s dedication to democratizing data about IP programs and empower aspiring innovators of all backgrounds worldwide.
Qualcomm has carried out comparable applications in different international locations and areas, together with L2Pro in Germany, the UK, Italy, France, and L2ProIndia (in collaboration with the Authorities of India and Nationwide Legislation College), and The Inventor’s Patent Academy within the US (in collaboration with Invent Collectively, an alliance aimed toward making certain broader entry to the patent system and larger variety amongst patent holders).
