PREAMBLE WHEREAS, Liberia has maintained a Patent, Copyright and Trademark Law as Title 24 of the Liberian Code of Laws Revised; and, WHEREAS, the Copyright portion of said Title 24 was re-enacted as “An Act Adopting a New Copyright Law of the Republic of Liberia” which came into effect on July 30, 1997; and, WHEREAS, the Patent and Trademark portions along with other related areas of said Title were developed into the Industrial Property Act of Liberia which came into effect on April 30, 2003; and, WHEREAS, each of these Acts establish an office to regulate the specific aspect of Intellectual Property within the scope of each Act; and, WHEREAS, under this arrangement Liberia maintains a Copyright Office separate and distinct from its Industrial Property Office; and, WHEREAS, this arrangement has created unnecessary bureaucracies and disjointed operations in Liberia‟s Intellectual Property regime; and, REALIZING that it is necessary to combine the Copyright Office and Industrial Property Office and to make them more responsive, both organizationally and functionally, and thereby remove such unwarranted bureaucracies and disjointed operations in order to establish an integrated and efficient Intellectual Property regime for the Country; and, ACKNOWLEDGING that rationalization of the organizational and functional structures of the Government of the Republic of Liberia promotes economic development, efficiency in utilization of resources and effectiveness in the delivery of public services; NOW THEREFORE, it is enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Republic of Liberia, in Legislature assembled. i