Mali
Mali is a landlocked, surrounded on the west by Senegal and Mauritania, on the north-east by Algeria and Niger, on the south-east by Burkina Faso, and on the south by Ivory Coast and Guinea.
- Capital: Bamako
- Currency: CPA Franc
- Population: 14,517,176
- Area: 1 240 192 km²
- GDP $ : $40.974 billion (2017)
- Internet domain: .ml
- Languages: French (official language) , Arabic, Bambara.
- Exports: Machinery and equipment; construction materials; petroleum; foodstuffs; textiles
- Imports: Cotton; livestock; gold
Trade mark protection is obtainable only in terms of the Bangui Agreement by way of a filing with the OAPI IP office
Patent protection is obtainable only in terms of the Bangui Agreement by way of a filing with the OAPI IP office.
Design protection is obtainable only in terms of the Bangui Agreement by way of a filing with the OAPI IP office.
Provision is made for copyright protection in OAPI member countries in terms of the Bangui Agreement. In Mali legislation to provide for copyright was recently enacted – Law no 08-024 of 2008 on the Regime of Literary and Artistic Property in the Republic of Mali.
