Abstract

The review breaks down Intellectual property (IP) in Zambia by thoroughly assessing its ongoing legitimate system. The targets of the review were to dissect the current regulations and guidelines overseeing licensed innovation in Zambia, including the Licenses Act, Copyright Act, and Brand Name Act; to research the adequacy of IP freedoms requirement systems, and to give significant proposals to policymakers to improve the assurance and implementation of IP privileges. A close-to-home examination approach was utilized, using purposive testing, and the information was investigated uniquely. The outcomes uncovered that the Licenses Act is the central rule managing licenses in Zambia, and licenses are yielded for significant contemplations that consolidate an imaginative step and have present-day reasonableness. Nonetheless, the investigation discovered that Zambia’s patent authorization frameworks are wasteful and incapable. Furthermore, the current IP authoritative structure is obsolete and needs correction to more readily line up with worldwide guidelines. Given the discoveries, the review proposes a few proposals: (1) the public authority ought to smooth out the cycles for enlisting licenses, brand names, and copyrights to make them more open and less unwieldy for makers; (2) existing IP regulations ought to be consistently evaluated and changed to line up with worldwide principles and address arising issues, especially in the computerized space; and (3) preparing and assets ought to be given to policing legal executive staff to improve the implementation of IP freedoms and all the more really address encroachment.