CIPPAC Innovation Hub
CIPPAC
The Centre for Intellectual Property Protection and Commercialization (CIPPAC). We help innovators secure patents, license technology, and launch successful spin-offs across Africa and beyond.
Assisting faculty and student inventors with meticulous drafting and official IP registration.
Transitioning academic prototypes into viable market products.
Conducting clinics, capacity-building workshops, and one-on-one institutional IP counseling.
Fostering rich collaboration with corporate partners.
The Centre for Intellectual Property Protection and Commercialization (CIPPAC), University of Ibadan, is the official institutional engine dedicated to identifying, protecting, and commercializing the university's intellectual assets.
We empower inventors and researchers by providing advisory services, patent applications support, and licensing coordination, while actively matchmaking academy innovations with corporate industry partners to drive national economic development.
Empowering researchers and inventors at every step of their commercialization journey.
Assisting inventors with novelty searches, drafting comprehensive patent specifications, and managing registrations.
Learn More trending_flatSecuring institutional brands, project logos, and university trademarks to build commercial market identity.
Learn More trending_flatFiling copyrights for software, academic manuscripts, educational videos, and creative works.
Learn More trending_flatManaging licensing, MTAs, NDAs, and structuring industry transition pathways for university assets.
Learn More trending_flatMentoring spin-offs, market validation, and connecting inventors with venture capital investors.
Learn More trending_flatOrganizing patent clinics, hosting workshops, and developing institutional IP policies.
Learn More trending_flatThe structured path CIPPAC uses to transform research outputs into real-world market innovations.
Researchers and inventors identify innovative solutions to critical local and global problems.
Proving concepts in laboratory research and building initial working prototypes.
CIPPAC audits innovation and files patents, copyrights, or trademarks to secure rights.
Structuring commercial licensing deals or establishing university spin-off startups.
Scaling production, marketing products, and establishing distribution channels.
Corporate market adoption of the product or process on a large scale.
Creation of new jobs, generation of revenue, and resolving critical societal problems.
An innovative, patented process utilizing crushed cow horns as a fine aggregate replacement in concrete, driving sustainable construction materials.
A portable, highly efficient solar incubator designed to provide life-saving neonatal care in off-grid rural healthcare facilities.
An agricultural drone payload utilizing proprietary machine learning algorithms to identify crop blights before they spread.
University of Ibadan, Nigeria
At CIPPAC, our mandate goes beyond mere academic protection. We are here to transform the brilliance originating within the University of Ibadan into tangible, commercial assets that drive national economic development. Your research is not just paper—it is the foundation of tomorrow's industries.
Professor Oladapo Titus Okareh is a distinguished scholar, NUC Merit Award winner, and Professor of Environmental Health Sciences. Since his re-appointment as Director in 2023, he has aggressively championed institutional patenting and the matchmaking of university innovations with global markets.
Recognized for outstanding doctoral research contributions.
Leading UI's global intellectual property strategy since 2023.
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2026 Testimonials
"CIPPAC helped guide me through the complicated process of registering my agricultural diagnostic patent. Their expert legal counsel allowed our laboratory to secure its IP rights in less than a year."
"Without the technology transfer office at CIPPAC, our student engineering project would have remained a prototype. They brokered the licensing deal that brought our solar dryer to local farms."
"As an industry partner, navigating university IP can be a minefield. CIPPAC streamlined the entire commercialization process, ensuring a fair and rapid licensing agreement that benefited both academia and our corporation."
"The IP clinics hosted by CIPPAC completely changed how our research team approaches data publication. We now understand how to protect our digital assets before publishing."
University of Ibadan
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