Uwa Ohiku
RCO Court
3-5 Sinari Daranijo Street,
Off Ajose Adeogun,
Victoria Island,
Lagos, Nigeria.
+234 1 4626841/3
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Overview
Uwa is a Senior Partner in the Firm.
She has specialist experience in all aspects of IP law & practice and handles the local IP portfolios of numerous blue chip international corporations based particularly in the US and Europe. Uwa was appointed a panel member of the US National Arbitration Forum in 2002 to arbitrate on the largest Domain Name dispute involving a well-known cable provider. She is the only Nigerian Panelist of the WIPO Domain Names Arbitration & Mediation Center and has been consistently nominated as a leading Nigerian IP practitioner by the Who’s Who Legal Publication.
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Credentials
EDUCATION
- Harvard Business School Boston, USA – Leading Professional Service Firms 2013
- Executive MBA for Lawyers London, UK 2007
- Lagos Business School (Pan African University) – Human Resources Management 2005
- Nigerian Law School B.L 1986
- University of Benin Nigeria LL.B 1985
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
- International Bar Association (IBA) (IP & Entertainment Law)
- Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)
- Intellectual Property Law Association of Nigeria (IPLAN)
- IP Committee Section on Business Law (SBL)
- International Trademark Association (INTA)
- INTA Anti-Counterfeiting Committee (2002-2004) and INTA Bulletin Committee (2005-2007)
- Chairperson, Panel on Review of Nigerian Draft Trademarks Act (2002)
- Institute of Trade Mark Agents (ITMA)(Overseas Member)
- Asia- Pacific Lawyers Association (APLA)
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Experience
PRACTICE AREAS
- Commercial Intellectual Property
- Intellectual Property
Practice Areas
- Commercial Intellectual Property
- Intellectual Property