Monrovia, Liberia – A three-day training workshop has begun at the Liberia Intellectual Property Office (LIPO) with the goal of educating participants on intellectual property rights, registration, enforcement, and commercialization. Several Liberians from the corporate community, stakeholders, and the creative industry came together for the three-day program.
Liberians have been doing very well in the creative sector over the years, but they lack the knowledge, empowerment, and the proper tools to benefit and make their work visible, according to Garmai Koboi, Director General of the Liberia Intellectual Property Office (LIPO), who spoke at the opening ceremony on Wednesday, February 18, 2026, in Monrovia.
“We called you to this workshop so that we can empower you with the rightful knowledge to help you, and to show you how to benefit from your work and how to protect your contents,” Madam Koboi added.
At the same time, Dr. Cecelia J. Nutah, Director General of the National AIDS Commission (NAC), urged participants to give the training careful thought, adding that Liberians must fully understand the copyright law in order to protect their works and benefit from them.
The 2016 Intellectual Property Act created the Liberia Intellectual Property Office (LIPO) as the country’s central agency for managing, advancing, and defending intellectual property (IP) rights. As a semi-autonomous organization, it is in charge of registering and upholding industrial designs, patents, trademarks, and copyrights in order to promote creativity, innovation, and economic prosperity.
Reported by: Rancy Sunn Teewia
