Trends:
Just want to advise all out there of the need to protect your ideas, trade names,business applications, website content, industrial processes etc, however simple you might think the idea is, before submitting them as proposals to corporate sponsors, banks, individuals and others by taking advantage of trademark and patent laws in Nigeria.

I know of an ongoing law suit involving some brilliant young whizz-kids who have stopped four (4) very powerful financial institutions from using an idea that these whizz-kids submitted in a proposal to these institutions when they were seeking partnership. How did they succeed?They did so simply because they protected the idea via patent before submitting the proposals.  The institutions that they submitted to were not aware of the patent before they "stole" the idea and "launched" the product on television as though it were their own idea!

Those guys are now in court with these corporate institutions for sums ranging up to N100m and they are likely to win!

Always protect your ideas!

This is the type of thread that should be put on the front page but they won't do that.

Well, I saw your PM. Any idea of cost of trademark? Patent?