An image is not simply a trade mark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things – the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
The most important thing about intellectual property vs. creative expression is that copyright law was created not to stifle creativity but to encourage creativity.
Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That’s how the patent office defines it. That’s an invention.
Fight for the things you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
The public feels that if it’s on the Internet and you can access it, you deserve it. You haven’t committed any kind of crime. We may even have to rename piracy. But in any case, we have to confront it.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.
Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.
If you built it, they will come.

Symbol of imperishability and endurance
This symbol gets its meaning from traditional priests that were able to walk on fire without burning their feet, an inspiration to others to endure and overcome difficulties.

Trade Marks
“An image is not simply a trade mark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.”
– Daniel J Boorstin
- Trade Mark portfolio management
- Trade Mark protection & filing strategies
Trade Mark searching
- Trade Mark filing & prosecution
- Trade Mark opposition & cancellation
Trade Mark litigation, enforcement & ADR
Transactions, licensing and agreements
Trade Mark audits
Trade Mark renewals

Anti-counterfeiting
“The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things – the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.”
– Samuel Johnson
Anti-counterfeiting strategies and programmes
Customs brand registrations
Border actions and operations
Cross-border enforcement measures
Investigations and market surveillance
Search and seizure operations
Counterfeit goods criminal and civil litigation
Anti-counterfeiting training and awareness
Regulatory measures for sub-standard goods
Protected events registration and protection

Symbol of adaptability
The crocodile lives in the water, yet breathes the air, demonstrating an ability to adapt to circumstances.

Symbol of wisdom, knowledge and prudence
The implied meaning of the phrase “mate masie” is “I understand”. Understanding means wisdom and knowledge, but it also represents the prudence of taking into consideration what another person has said.

Copyright
“The most important thing about intellectual property vs. creative expression is that copyright law was created not to stifle creativity but to encourage creativity”
– Shepard Fairey
- Subsistence and ownership
- Registration – cinematograph films
- Moral and Economic rights protection
Copyright enforcement& litigation
Anti-piracy strategies and programmes
Licensing and commercialisation

Patents
“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
– Thomas A. Edison
“A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That’s how the patent office defines it. That’s an invention.”
– Dean Kamen
- Patent searching
- Patent drafting
- Patent filing & examination
- Patent renewals & portfolio management
Revocation Proceedings
- Patent litigation & dispute resolution
- Protection of trade secrets and know-how
Patent licensing and commercialization agreements

Symbol of security and safety
Typical of Akan (Asante) architecture, the communal housing compound has only one entrance and exit.

Symbol of intelligence and ingenuity

Registered Designs
“Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.”
– Robert L. Peters
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
– Steve Jobs
- Design availability and use searching
Registered designs filing and examination
Registered designs renewals
Revocation Proceedings
Recordal of changes and licences
Design enforcement & litigation

IP Litigation & Dispute Resolution
“Fight for the things you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.”
– Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
– Mark Twain
- IP litigious matters
- High court litigation
- Passing off and unlawful competition
Proceedings before Registrar or Trade Mark and Court of the Commissioner of Patents
- Anti-counterfeiting litigation
- Company name objections
- Advertising Regulatory Board disputes
- Domain name disputes
- Alternative dispute resolution

Symbol of hardiness, toughness and perseverance
The seed of the wawa tree is extremely hard. In Akan culture, it is a symbol of someone who is strong and tough. It inspires the individual to persevere through hardship.

Symbol of change, life’s dynamics

Internet & Domain Names
“The public feels that if it’s on the Internet and you can access it, you deserve it. You haven’t committed any kind of crime. We may even have to rename piracy. But in any case, we have to confront it.”
– Morgan Freeman
- Online protection strategies
- Online anti-counterfeiting
- Domain name registrations, renewals & transfers
Domain name dispute resolution
Domain name audits
Data privacy and policies

Advertising Law & Practice
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”
– Warren Buffett
ARB Code of Advertising Practice Compliance
- Advertising complaints
- Ambush marketing
- IP legal aspects of advertising, marketing and promotion
- Regulatory compliance & product labelling

Symbol of wisdom, creativity and the complexities of life
Ananse, the spider, is a well-known character in African folktales.

Symbol of cooperation and interdependence

Commercialisation Of IP
“Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.”
– Walt Disney
“If you built it, they will come.”
– W.P Kinsella
IP management
IP strategy and ownership models
IP agreements and commercial contracts
IP audits
Licensing
Confidential information and trade secrets
An image is not simply a trade mark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things – the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
The most important thing about intellectual property vs. creative expression is that copyright law was created not to stifle creativity but to encourage creativity.
Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That’s how the patent office defines it. That’s an invention.
Fight for the things you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
The public feels that if it’s on the Internet and you can access it, you deserve it. You haven’t committed any kind of crime. We may even have to rename piracy. But in any case, we have to confront it.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.
Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.
If you built it, they will come.

Symbol of imperishability and endurance
This symbol gets its meaning from traditional priests that were able to walk on fire without burning their feet, an inspiration to others to endure and overcome difficulties.

Trade Marks
“An image is not simply a trade mark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.”
- Daniel J Boorstin
- Trade Mark portfolio management
- Trade Mark protection & filing strategies
- Trade Mark searching
- Trade Mark filing & prosecution
- Trade Mark opposition & cancellation
- Trade Mark litigation, enforcement & ADR
- Transactions, licensing and agreements
- Trade Mark audits
- Trade Mark renewals

Symbol of adaptability
The crocodile lives in the water, yet breathes the air, demonstrating an ability to adapt to circumstances.

Anti-counterfeiting
“The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things – the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.”
- Samuel Johnson
- Anti-counterfeiting strategies and programmes
- Customs brand registrations
- Border actions and operations
- Cross-border enforcement measures
- Investigations and market surveillance
- Search and seizure operations
- Counterfeit goods criminal and civil litigation
- Anti-counterfeiting training and awareness
- Regulatory measures for sub-standard goods
- Protected events registration and protection

Symbol of wisdom, knowledge and prudence
The implied meaning of the phrase "mate masie" is "I understand". Understanding means wisdom and knowledge, but it also represents the prudence of taking into consideration what another person has said.

Copyright
“The most important thing about intellectual property vs. creative expression is that copyright law was created not to stifle creativity but to encourage creativity”
- Shepard Fairey
- Subsistence and ownership
- Registration – cinematograph films
- Moral and Economic rights protection
- Copyright enforcement& litigation
- Anti-piracy strategies and programmes
- Licensing and commercialisation

Symbol of security and safety
Typical of Akan (Asante) architecture, the communal housing compound has only one entrance and exit.

Patents
“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
- Thomas A. Edison
“A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That’s how the patent office defines it. That’s an invention.”
- Dean Kamen
- Patent searching
- Patent drafting
- Patent filing & examination
- Patent renewals & portfolio management
- Revocation Proceedings
- Patent litigation & dispute resolution
- Protection of trade secrets and know-how
- Patent licensing and commercialization agreements

Symbol of intelligence and ingenuity

Registered Designs
“Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.”
- Robert L. Peters
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
- Steve Jobs
- Design availability and use searching
- Registered designs filing and examination
- Registered designs renewals
- Revocation Proceedings
- Recordal of changes and licences
- Design enforcement & litigation

Symbol of hardiness, toughness and perseverance
The seed of the wawa tree is extremely hard. In Akan culture, it is a symbol of someone who is strong and tough. It inspires the individual to persevere through hardship.

IP Litigation & Dispute Resolution
“Fight for the things you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.”
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
- Mark Twain
- IP litigious matters
- High court litigation
- Passing off and unlawful competition
- Proceedings before Registrar or Trade Mark and Court of the Commissioner of Patents
- Anti-counterfeiting litigation
- Company name objections
- Advertising Regulatory Board disputes
- Domain name disputes
- Alternative dispute resolution

Symbol of change, life's dynamics

Internet & Domain Names
“The public feels that if it’s on the Internet and you can access it, you deserve it. You haven’t committed any kind of crime. We may even have to rename piracy. But in any case, we have to confront it.”
- Morgan Freeman
- Online protection strategies
- Online anti-counterfeiting
- Domain name registrations, renewals & transfers
- Domain name dispute resolution
- Domain name audits
- Data privacy and policies

Symbol of wisdom, creativity and the complexities of life
Ananse, the spider, is a well-known character in African folktales.

Advertising Law & Practice
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.”
– Warren Buffett
- ARB Code of Advertising Practice Compliance
- Advertising complaints
- Ambush marketing
- IP legal aspects of advertising, marketing and promotion
- Regulatory compliance & product labelling

Symbol of cooperation and interdependence

Commercialisation Of IP
“Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.”
- Walt Disney
“If you built it, they will come.”
- W.P Kinsella
- IP management
- IP strategy and ownership models
- IP agreements and commercial contracts
- IP audits
- Licensing
- Confidential information and trade secrets