• Price conscious and cost effective IP services
• Local Presence and in-depth local knowledge
• One stop shop for all your IP issues in the countries in which we operate
• Experienced IP professionals based in respective countries
• Single client manager for all of your work under our control
• Comprehensive approach to the management of your portfolio and the contentious and commercial issues associated with it
• Client-tailored levels of communication (including 24 hour access, a monthly report of developments and matters for instructions instead of an email for every action, whether it is urgent or not)
• Choice of consolidated monthly billing.

Key Services

• Trade Marks: A mark is used or proposed to be used in relation to goods for the purpose of indicating, or so as to indicate, a connection in the course of trade between the goods and some person having the right either as proprietor or registered user to use the mark whether with or without any indication of the identity of the person.Registration of a Trade Mark entitles the proprietor to institute proceedings for the infringement of Trade Marks and accordingly obtain damages. However this does not prejudice an applicants right to sue for passing off under common law (APPLICABLE IN SOME WEST AFRICAN COUNTRIES). (read more)

• Patents: Patents can generally be described as the right granted to an inventor by a State, or by regional office acting for several States, which allows the inventor to exclude anyone else from commercially exploiting his invention for a limited period, usually 20 years. (read more)

• Designs: Any combination of lines and colours or both and any three dimensional form whether or not associated with colours, if it is intended by the creator to be used as a model or pattern to be multiplied by industrial process and is not intended solely to obtain technical result.(read more)

GRF services apply to the following regional schemes (click on any of the itmes in the list to learn more).

• OAPI (African Intellectual Property Organization):  Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal and Togo.