3RD EDITION OF THE OAPI BRAND AWARDS

Created on March 2, 1977 in Banguithe African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI) organized the 3rd edition of its Awards on May 15, 2021 in Douala (the first and the second, having respectively taken place in Yaoundé in 2016, and in Abidjan in 2019).

On this occasion, the following were awarded the best brands from the 17 member statesThe OAPI Brand Grand Prize, the Best Local Brand Prize and the Public Prize were awarded.

OAPI covers the protection of patents, utility models, trademarks, industrial designs, trade names, geographical indications, copyright, unfair competition, integrated circuit designs and plant breeders' rights.

The Congo has been a member since February 8, 1982along with the 16 other states which are Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, the Central African Republic, Senegal, Chad and Togo.

The Congolese companies so far absent from the three editions of the OAPI Brand Awards, should seize the opportunity of the next editionThe Congolese companies, which have been absent from the three editions of the OAPI Brand Awards so far, should take the opportunity of the next edition, scheduled in three years, to make their local brands known in the perspective of the vast market of the African Continental Free Trade Area, whose instruments are gradually being put in place.