The Patents and Companies Registration Office (PACRO) officially launched its information brochures on 30^th October 2007 in Ndola. The launch was part of the official opening of PACRO’s Copperbelt Regional Office officiated by the Honourable Minister of Commerce, Trade and Industry, Mr. Felix Mutati, MP.

The brochures were produced in conjunction with the Private Sector Development Programme – Administrative Barriers Working Group and the Zambia Threshold Project.

The brochures are a guide on how to go about various registration and post-registration procedures undertaken by PACRO. They cover all the main areas of operation, such as how proposed names are approved.

The brochures were produced in response to customer demands for easily accessible information on PACRO’s operations. They are also meant to complement the information available on PACRO’s website since the majority of its clients have no access to the internet.The brochures will therefore add value to PACRO’s service delivery.

The titles of brochures produced are: 

• How to register a company in Zambia,
• How to register a business name,
• Procedure followed in approving companies and business names,
• Post-registration requirements

Other earlier production include:

• Guide to business names, and
• How to patent an invention in Zambia under the national procedure,
• A guide to proper use of trademarks, and
• Basic facts about industrial designs.

It is hoped by PACRO that these information materials will be found to be greatly beneficial to PACRO clients as well as the general populace in understanding what PACRO does.