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Africa seeks common laws to fight counterfeits
Written by George Omondi
April 24, 2009: Industrial property rights experts are campaigning for the harmonisation of the anti-counterfeiting laws across Africa.
They blame the failure to tackle the menace, which they say has stifled the continent's industrial growth, on the disjointed legal regime.
At a two-day pan African intellectual property and anti-counterfeiting forum that opened in Nairobi yesterday, delegates from different countries said the counterfeiters were exploiting the vacuum created by lack of clear legal framework at national levels and absence of a common regional policy on counterfeiting to infiltrate the local economies.
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