Nigeria Patent Law System

In the recent years, the trade contacts of China and Nigeria are developing gradually. Along with the advance of the globalization and science technically, the technique trades of China and Nigeria are also gradually multifarious. The patent techniques become more and more valuable in the knowledge-based economy ages as a kind of intelligence results that can be transferred. Many countries have built up patent system to protect and exploit invents, and then encourage the invention creations to push the development of their industry, so as Nigeria. We have to carry on a study to the patent law system of the Nigeria, in order to insuring the trade contacts of China and Nigeria developing normally, and to protect the legal benefits of our country's investors.The Nigeria is an ancient country of mid- African which has a long history with the special cultural tradition. Its legal system is under the influence of British method because it had ever been the colony of England. The legal system of Nigeria presents certain complexity because of the dual function of the traditional ideas and the history factors, the case law of England, the equity and the common law of Nigeria mainland are all playing important role in the Nigeria legal system. The Nigeria patent law system has the characteristic of the obviously localization of foreign laws. Through a long-term of grope and practice, it tallied up a patent system which in keeping with the native state of the nation and its special features, as to serving the benefits and the industry policy of the country gradually. The establishment of Nigeria's patent law system also been based on the joint efforts of the developing countries'claim for their development. The birth of its patent law system drown lessons from many provisions of the BIRPI model law and the ESARIPO model law, the patent protect reflected the internationalization and the regional unify and other widespread characteristics of the international economic development.This thesis is based on the social relationship regulated by patent law. It gives us a clear introduction of the Nigeria patent law systems through a series analyze including its patent object system, patent subject system, the contents of patent rights, patent application system, the limitation to patent rights etc. Tally up its patent law system's obviously characteristics, analyzed its shortages and prospect, in order to know their similarities and differences to avoid the economic and trade conflicts which evoked by the legal difference between China and Nigeria.