South African Intellectual Property Law Journal

Caroline Ncube holds the DSI/NRF SARChI Research Chair in Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development at the University of Cape Town. She also lectures on the WIPO-ARIPO-Africa University Masters Degree in IP. She is an Associate Member, of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society, University of Ottawa. She is an expert for WIPO, ECA, SADC and a member of the African Policy, Research & Advisory Group on STI. She is a co-editor of  the South African IP Law Journal  and serves on the editorial boards of several journals including the Journal of World IP. She is a co-leader of the Open African Innovation Research partnership and participates in several other research projects.

Her full profile is available at http://www.commerciallaw.uct.ac.za/CarolineNcube

ORCid: 0000-0003-0933-937X

Associate Professor, Department of Commercial Law, University of Cape TownFaculty of Law Deputy Dean for Postgraduate Studies

She is one of the co-founders of the SAIPLJ. She holds a BA(Hons), LLB and PhD degrees from Cape Town, and LLMs from London and Turin. She convenes and teaches intellectual property courses at LLB and postgraduate level and has published locally and internationally on the subject.

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Chijioke Okorie PhD (UCT); LLM (Strathclyde). Lecturer in the Department of Private Law, University of Pretoria and Research Fellow, Centre for Intellectual Property Law, University of Pretoria; Founder, Penguide Advisory  and ‘Africa Correspondent’, The IPKat. She was the inaugural Postdoctoral Fellow under the SARChI Research Chair in Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development in the Department of Commercial Law at UCT from 2019 – 2020. Editorial Assistant SAIPLJ (2019 – 2021). Queen Elizabeth Scholar with the Open African Innovation Research (OpenAIR) Network. Her full profile is available on: LinkedIn

Desmond Oriakhogba, PhD (UCT); LLM, LLB (UniBen). Senior Lecturer, Department of Mercantile and Private Law, University of Venda. Solicitor and Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. Research Assistant, Department of Commercial Law, UCT (2016 – 2018); Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Public Law and Research Assistant, DST/NRF SARChI Research Chair in Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development, Commercial Law Department, UCT (2019 – 2020); Editorial Assistant SAIPLJ (2017 – 2021). Queen Elizabeth Scholar with the Open African Innovation Research (OpenAIR) Network.