“Transfer of copyright ownership” means an assignment, mortgage, exclusive license, or any other
conveyance, alienation, or hypothecation of a copyright, or any of the exclusive rights comprised in a
copyright, whether or not it is limited in time or place of effect, but not including a non exclusive license;
“Transmission program” means a body of material that, as an aggregate, has been produced for the sole
purpose of transmission to the public in sequence and as a unit.
“Transmit a performance or display” means to communicate it by any device or process whereby, images
or sounds are received beyond the place from which they are sent.
“Utility models” means an exclusive right granted for an invention which allows the right holder to
prevent others from commercially using the protected invention without his authorization for a limited
period of time.
“WIPO” means World Intellectual Property Office.
“WPPT” means WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty of 1996.
“WTO” means World Trade Organization.
PART II
THE LIBERIA INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OFFICE (LIPO)
SUB-PART A: FORMATION AND NATURE
Establishment, Power, Duties, and Immunity
Section 4
§4.1. Establishment of the Liberia Intellectual Property Office (LIPO)
There is hereby established in the Executive Branch of Government a corporate semi-autonomous agency
with perpetual succession and a common seal to be known as “Liberia Intellectual Property Office”,
comprising a central administration and two departments, Copyright Department and Industrial Property
Department, under the policy direction of the Minister of Commerce to administer all intellectual property
matters. Its headquarters shall be in the City of Monrovia.
§4.2. Powers and Duties of LIPO
The powers and duties of the office shall be to:
(a) sue and be sued;
(b) take, purchase or otherwise acquire, hold, charge or dispose of movable and immovable property;
(c) enter into contracts;
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