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Building expert demands Sh3b from State for patent theft

Kenya: A building expert and an UN award winner wants a Nakuru High Court to order the Government to pay his construction firm royalties amounting to over Sh3 billion over alleged misuse of a patented building technology.

New Build Engineering Construction Chairman Architect John Damus Gachara told High Court Judge Hellen Omondi that the Ministry of Housing failed to honour a process of acquisition of a patented building technology he invented after researching for 20 years.

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