According to the provisions of Articles 3, 4 and 5 of the Patents and Designs Act of 24 in Nigeria, people should submit their own patent applications to the Trademark, Patents and Designs Registration Bureau of that country, and this application must contain some information. After receiving the patent application, the examiner will conduct a search to determine whether the application has obtained the patent right. If the search results show that the application has not been patented, the applicant will need to submit the following documents to the examiner:

● A petition or request for patent right, including the signature of the applicant or its agency, and the full name and address of the applicant;

● Description, including claims (in duplicate) and drawings (in duplicate if necessary);

● A statement requiring the name and address of the real inventor to be written in the patent application (applicable situation: the above-mentioned inventor made this request on his own initiative);

● A power of attorney signed by the applicant (applicable situation: the applicant chooses an agency to submit a patent application on its behalf);

● Service address of documents in Nigeria (applicable situation: the applicant's residence is not in Nigeria); And

● various fees specified. After completing the above work, the examiner will examine this patent application. It should be pointed out here that the applicant must meet all the requirements of formal examination in Nigeria's Patents and Designs Act of 24. After that, if this application has passed the examination of other links (for example, whether the claims are novel, creative and industrial, and whether the description fully discloses the relevant invention content, etc.), then this application will obtain a patent right. However, judging from the current actual situation, even if the inventor obtains the patent right in Nigeria as he wishes, he still needs to continue to be vigilant to prevent his rights from being infringed. Of course, no matter whether the invention application involves products or methods, the examiner will adopt the same set of examination procedures.