Motari, Marion
Nikiema, Jean-Baptiste
Kasilo, Ossy M. J.
Kniazkov, Stanislav
Loua, Andre
Sougou, Aissatou
Tumusiime, Prosper
Article History
Received: 28 August 2020
Accepted: 2 February 2021
First Online: 11 March 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Since this research does not include human participants, no permission was needed from the WHO African Region Ethics Review Committee. We visited ARIPO and OAPI offices and met with relevant officers to whom we explained the objectives of the study and clarified the parameters of the patent data we needed for purposes of this study. Upon our request, the relevant patent data, specific to this study, was availed to us as downloaded files in MS Excel format.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.