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TRADE NAME REGISTRATION BEFORE THE AFRICAN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANISATION (OAPI)

The African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI) is an intergovernmental institution which handles trade name registration in 17 member states: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Comoro Islands, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal and Togo.

The African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI) was created in March 1977 by the Bangui Agreement with the main goal of simplifying and encouraging the protection of Intellectual Property rights, promote the development industrial property rights within member states.

Online gambling in Cameroon or Online betting can be defined as a game or betting in which participation is done exclusively through an online public communication service.