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Togo

(WIPO code: TG)
(latest review March 2025)
by CABINET ISIS CONSEILS, Mandataire OAPI, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Area

56,790 sq. km.

Population

8,703,961 (2023).

Capital

Lomé.

Currency

C.F.A. franc.

Official language

French.

Main agricultural and natural products

Yams, grains, cotton, groundnuts, cocoa, coffee, farming, forestry.

Main Mineral Products

Phosphate.

Main exports

Phosphate, cotton, cocoa, coffee.

Tourist Industry

Natural reserves.

GNI

(per capita): U.S.$ 990 (estimated 2022).

Togo was first a German colony. It was subsequently divided between the French and the British by a mandate of the League of Nations and became a trusteeship territory of the United Nations on September 14, 1946. Togo became autonomous and a member of the French Community in 1958 and achieved its full independence on April 27, 1960.

The economy is mainly agricultural (yams, manioc, cocoa). Iron ore deposits were discovered in the north-central region in 1967.

Togo is a republic.

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Legislation

Togo is one of the member countries of the Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle (OAPI). Patent, trademark and design applications at the OAPI at Yaoundé in the Cameroon Republic cover all countries of the Bangui Agreement. For full particulars, see under “African Intellectual Property Organization“.

 

Membership in International Conventions

– Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, Stockholm Act, since September 10, 1967.
– Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), since April 28, 1975.
– Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, since April 30, 1975.
– Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration, Stockholm Act, since April 30, 1975.
– Patent Cooperation Treaty (bound by Chapter II of the PCT), since January 24, 1978.
– WTO’s TRIPS Agreement, since May 31, 1995.