Monday 28 March 2011

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New CEO for Kenya IP Office

Dr. Henry Kibet Mutai is the new Managing Director of Kenya Industrial Property Institute with effect from 1st April 2011. Currently he is a Law lecturer at Moi University.

Dr. Mutai graduated from the University of Nairobi with Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) degree in 1994. He obtained a Master of Laws (LLM) degree from Temple University in USA with a focus on international law and intellectual property. He is an alumni of the University of Melbourne from where he obtained his Doctorate in 2006 - his Phd thesis was titled “The regulation of regional trade agreements: harnessing the energy of regionalism to power a new era in multilateral trade”.

He is also the author of the bookCompliance with International Trade Obligations: The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa” published by Kluwer Law international in 2007.

Dr Mutai takes over from Prof. James Odek, who Afro-ip is informed has been named the Dean of the school of Law at the University of Nairobi.

Afro-IP takes this opportunity to congratulate Dr. Mutai and to wish him well in his new position for the next three years.

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Awele Jackson
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4 May 2011 at 09:20 delete

This is undoubtedly a welcome appointment for all of us in the Practice of Intellectual Property Law. This ensures a continuum of discipline and professionalism in this very sensitive area of law.

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