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Industrial Property Landscape inKenya: Facts, figures and trends
Citation: Scinnovent 2015. Industrial property landscape in Kenya: Facts, trends and figures. Scinnovent. Nairobi, Kenya
Industrial designsUtility
modelsPatents
1990 2014
Citation: Scinnovent 2015. Industrial property landscape in Kenya: Facts, trends and figures. Scinnovent. Nairobi, Kenya
This report is based on secondary data availed to TheScinnovent Centre by the Kenya Industrial Property
Institute (KIPI).
Industrial property landscape in Kenya: Facts, trendsand figures. Scinnovent. Nairobi, Kenya
© 2015 The Scinnovent Centre
Editing, design and layout—Scinnovent CentrePublishing Services, Nairobi, Kenya.
1914
First patent is filed in Kenya
under the laws of England
Citation: Scinnovent 2015. Industrial property landscape in Kenya: Facts, trends and figures. Scinnovent. Nairobi, Kenya
Patents andDesignsOrdinanceenacted
IndustrialProperty ActCAP 509enacted
1914
1989Kenya IndustrialProperty Office (KIPO)established
Mandate to examine, grant andregister industrial property rights.
Industrial Property policies and legislation
Patents: 1990- 2013
1994
Citation: Scinnovent 2015. Industrial property landscape in Kenya: Facts, trends and figures. Scinnovent. Nairobi, Kenya
First patentgranted sinceestablishmentof KIPO
2,388 patents werefiled in the period1990 – 2013
Patents filed in 2013 was 24 times more than those filedin 1990 when Act was enacted
Steady growth......
633 patents had been grantedrepresenting 26.5% of total patentsfiled between 1990 and 2013
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for the first time,the patentapplications inKenya exceededthe 100 mark
In 2007,
Channels of application
Gap between national patents andPCT patents granted widened withmajority of the patents grantedbeing PCT patents.
National vs International
51.4% through patent cooperation treaty
(PCT)
48.6% through national patent
applications
73.6% PCT patents26.4% Nationalpatents
2008 to 2013
633 patentsgranted
First PCT patentapplication in 1994
1990-2013
Citation: Scinnovent 2015. Industrial property landscape in Kenya: Facts, trends and figures. Scinnovent. Nairobi, Kenya
Time taken to grant patents
Citation: Scinnovent 2015. Industrial property landscape in Kenya: Facts, trends and figures. Scinnovent. Nairobi, Kenya
Timebetween filing date
and grant date
majority of patents took between 2and 3 years to be granted.
GovernmentCompaniesIndividuals
Different types of applicants
More than half (57.58%)of patents
filed by companies
36.07% of these granted
Public research institutesUniversities and other learninginstitutionsVarious forms of partnerships
Citation: Scinnovent 2015. Industrial property landscape in Kenya: Facts, trends and figures. Scinnovent. Nairobi, Kenya
National patents filed in partnerships
10 types of partnerships:
Citation: Scinnovent 2015. Industrial property landscape in Kenya: Facts, trends and figures. Scinnovent. Nairobi, Kenya
Partnerships betweenindividuals granted mostpatents
278 patents filed bypartnerships14.4% of these weregranted
Classification of patents granted, byeconomic sector
Most patents granted toagriculture, forestry andfishing
Mining and quarryinggranted the least
31.4%
0.5 %
Based onInternationalPatentsClassificationscheme
Citation: Scinnovent 2015. Industrial property landscape in Kenya: Facts, trends and figures. Scinnovent. Nairobi, Kenya
Utility models: 1993 to 2013
396 utility models filed 42 grantedIndividuals 50%, Companies 31%, Partnerships 16.6% University and other learninginstitutions - 0Public Research Institutes2.4%
55.8% by individuals17.4% by companies16.9% by partnerships8.6% by universities and other learninginstitutions1.3% by Public Research institutions
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Partnerships betweenindividuals/ individualsrecord highest success
Utility models: owners' category
Citation: Scinnovent 2015. Industrial property landscape in Kenya: Facts, trends and figures. Scinnovent. Nairobi, Kenya
were filed by partnerships Only 7 models were granted tothese partnerships
67 utilitymodels
Period taken to grant utility models
Citation: Scinnovent 2015. Industrial property landscape in Kenya: Facts, trends and figures. Scinnovent. Nairobi, Kenya
Majority ofutility modelstook 12months andbelow to begranted.
How long does it take to grant a utility model?
Industrial designs: 1991 to April 2014
industrial designs filed between 1991and 20141392
51.3% granted
Citation: Scinnovent 2015. Industrial property landscape in Kenya: Facts, trends and figures. Scinnovent. Nairobi, Kenya
Industrial designs classification byowners' category
Companiesfiled andgrantedmajority ofindustrialdesigns
82.5%filed onlyPublic research institutes
0.3% of the industrial designs and weregranted none
Citation: Scinnovent 2015. Industrial property landscape in Kenya: Facts, trends and figures. Scinnovent. Nairobi, Kenya
Industrial designs filed in partnerships
Citation: Scinnovent 2015. Industrial property landscape in Kenya: Facts, trends and figures. Scinnovent. Nairobi, Kenya
Partnerships betweenindividuals/individualsrecorded highestsuccess
24 industrial designsfiled inpartnerships
Rejected/ Delayed applications
Citation: Scinnovent 2015. Industrial property landscape in Kenya: Facts, trends and figures. Scinnovent. Nairobi, Kenya
73.5% of 2388 patents filedwere rejected90% of the 396 utilitymodels filed were rejected49% of the 1392 industrialdesigns filed were rejected
High rejection/ delay rate
Several reasons for rejection- patents
Citation: Scinnovent 2015. Industrial property landscape in Kenya: Facts, trends and figures. Scinnovent. Nairobi, Kenya
Some national patent applications evolved into different IP types:
Most applications NOT granted due to
lack of correspondence between applicant and KIPI
Converted into a utility modelFiled as PCT patents as perapplicants request
Failure to submitrequired feeLack of response toKIPIFailure to meet setcriteriaWithdrawal byapplicant
Citation: Scinnovent 2015. Industrial property landscape in Kenya: Facts, trends and figures. Scinnovent. Nairobi, Kenya
Reasons for patent applicationrejections/ delay
Reasons for utility models applicationsrejections/delay
Citation: Scinnovent 2015. Industrial property landscape in Kenya: Facts, trends and figures. Scinnovent. Nairobi, Kenya
Reasons for industrial designsapplications rejections/ delay
Citation: Scinnovent 2015. Industrial property landscape in Kenya: Facts, trends and figures. Scinnovent. Nairobi, Kenya
Citation: Scinnovent 2015. Industrial property landscape in Kenya: Facts, trends and figures. Scinnovent. Nairobi, Kenya
This work was carried out with the aid of a grant from theInternational Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa,
CanadaWe give special thanks to the Kenya Industrial Property Institute
(KIPI) for availing all the data used in this study
Acknowledgement