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Patenting in Benin
Patenting in Benin
Some benefits of patenting
Patenting provides several advantages to entrepreneurs.
This is :
- a wealth of information to follow the evolution of its technological field;
- a tool for gaining credibility and self-esteem;
- a tool to manage competition;
- a tool to deter mimicry, identical copying or falsification.
How is patenting done in Benin?
The applicant for a patent of invention submits his request to the General Directorate of the OAPI (African Intellectual Property Organization).
The invention is then subject to:
- formal review and compliance of claims;
- a substantive examination aimed at establishing that this invention or this product does not duplicate a patent already drafted benefiting from prior protection;
- of an examination proving its innovative character: it is new and results from an inventive activity.
OAPI/ANAPI services
ANaPI is a specialized structure of the Ministry in charge of industry and trade. It is responsible for protecting inventions, industrial designs or models, trademarks, trade names, etc. through industrial property titles issued by the OAPI and giving holders exclusive exploitation rights, it meets the needs of researchers and others, namely: limiting counterfeiting and punishing non-compliance with the industrial property code.