Afro-IP Post Leads to Lawsuit

May 18, 2009 |

The writers of the blog Afro-Ip (African Intellectual Property Law Blog) have found themselves in a bit of a touchy spot. According to Graeme Gilfillan, he was sued partly due to this blog post and comments he made on the Afro-Ip Google group. The team writes…

In the past few days Graeme Gilfillan from Nisaonline published a report that he had been sued for defamation by Samro, in part, for comments he posted to the Afro-IP Google Group. You can locate the note from Graeme here. The link to the piece which caused aggravation to Samro is contained through the link on the Afro-IP blog in this post, here.

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