Muni University. (File)

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The Director of Research and Innovations at Muni University, also the University secretary, Prof. Robert Kajobe, has revealed that the university is in the final stage of drafting the IP guidelines while acknowledging gaps in exposing innovations without protection.

He made the revelation during the Uganda ICT intellectual property guidelines dissemination workshop held at Muni University in Arua city on Wednesday, November 5, 2025.

During the engagement, several participants lamented that the lack of protection for intellectual property has been identified as the major challenge affecting innovators of new ideas in Uganda.

Experts say, while the Government has been advocating for intellectual property Rights, many innovators have not taken deliberate step-in protecting their innovative projects, mainly attributed to ignorance.

In a bid to enlighten beneficiaries of intellectual property rights, the Ministry of Information, Communication Technology and National Guidance has embarked on creating awareness on intellectual property rights among individual innovators and institutions.

This was revealed during the Uganda ICT intellectual property Guidelines dissemination workshop held at Muni University in Arua city on Wednesday, November 5th 2025.

Shirley Gladys Nakyejwe, an IT expert with the Ministry of ICT and National Guidance, said Universities and academic institutions generate at least 70 percent of the new ICT innovations in the country, but have not been marketed and protected.

Abraham Ageet Onyait, an official with Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) challenges the innovators to take advantage of commercialising their unique ideas.

Some of the innovators at the Muni University Business Incubation Centre described the workshop as timely.