Lack of patent examiners is one of the biggest challenges we are facing in specialized field like science, engineering and technology in Nigeria.
The other challenge is inability to upgrade the existing expert by attending short courses on patent examination guidelines. The effect of this lack of expertise is that patent examiners in Nigeria are unable to perform more than a cursory search of the registry records in order to locate prior art and as such there is no substantive examination of the specifications and drawings that are submitted for fillings. This is potentially dangerous because the average person finds it difficult to read and understand registered when there are prior patents covered by the new registration