Introduction:
OAPI is the main organization that ensures the protection of intellectual property rights in most African French speaking countries. Its member states are:
Benin, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Togo.
These countries are treated as one state in trademark law. Apart from that there is no national trademark law in the member states. Therefore it is not possible to obtain national registrations in these countries.
International treaty membership:
Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks (February 13, 2016)
Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks (March 5, 2015)
Legislation: