Galloway & Co
P O Box A761, AVONDALE,
HARARE, ZIMBABWE
Courier: 24 Lanark Rd, Belgravia, Harare, ZIMBABWE
Fax: +263 4 792 900
or
+263 4 795 915
Tel: +263 4 795 917
mail@galloway.co.zw

Huge official fee increase at the ARIPO office from April 2007

ABOUT US

Specialists in obtaining and protecting patents and designs in ARIPO affiliated countries.

Galloway & Co was founded in 1963 and has been present in Harare, Zimbabwe ever since. It is presently located within walking distance of the ARIPO office.

Harare is the capital city of Zimbabwe and the seat of the African Regional Intellectual Property Office (ARIPO) where all ARIPO applications are processed, examined, and granted thereby to obtain protection in all ARIPO contracting states for Patents and Trademarks respectivley.

Presently the ARIPO contracting states for Patents and Designs are Botswana, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe while for trademarks the ARIPO contracting states are Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe

In 1984 Galloway & Co was the first firm to file an ARIPO patent application and on 18 June 1984 AP/P/84/00001 to EH W von Elling was filed which granted as ARIPO patent AP2.

Galloway & Co was also the first firm to have an ARIPO patent application proceed to grant viz. AP/P/84/00003 which was filed in the name of The Wellcome Foundation Ltd granted as ARIPO patent AP1.

Since those early days of ARIPO, Galloway & Co has developed a rapport with ARIPO and is a well respected firm which has an excellent record of representing major multinationals in the filing and prosecuting of applications before ARIPO.

Galloway & Co is furthermore the only firm in Harare which can boast having the support of both technically and legally qualified staff, trained both locally and abroad, thereby further ensuring that all applications are dealt with expertly with respect to both formal and substantive issues and that we are able to advise clients fully on the prosecution of applications.