PREAMBLE
WHEREAS, Liberia has maintained a Patent, Copyright and Trademark Law as Title 24 of the Liberian
Code of Laws Revised; and,
WHEREAS, the Copyright portion of said Title 24 was re-enacted as “An Act Adopting a New Copyright
Law of the Republic of Liberia” which came into effect on July 30, 1997; and,
WHEREAS, the Patent and Trademark portions along with other related areas of said Title were
developed into the Industrial Property Act of Liberia which came into effect on April 30, 2003; and,
WHEREAS, each of these Acts establish an office to regulate the specific aspect of Intellectual Property
within the scope of each Act; and,
WHEREAS, under this arrangement Liberia maintains a Copyright Office separate and distinct from its
Industrial Property Office; and,
WHEREAS, this arrangement has created unnecessary bureaucracies and disjointed operations in
Liberia‟s Intellectual Property regime; and,
REALIZING that it is necessary to combine the Copyright Office and Industrial Property Office and to
make them more responsive, both organizationally and functionally, and thereby remove such
unwarranted bureaucracies and disjointed operations in order to establish an integrated and efficient
Intellectual Property regime for the Country; and,
ACKNOWLEDGING that rationalization of the organizational and functional structures of the
Government of the Republic of Liberia promotes economic development, efficiency in utilization of
resources and effectiveness in the delivery of public services;
NOW THEREFORE, it is enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Republic of Liberia,
in Legislature assembled.
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