At Independence Day celebrations on 19 April 2018, King Mswati III announced that the country's name, Kingdom of Swaziland, would change to Kingdom of Eswatini.

Following the 2017 retirement of former Registrar for Trade Marks in Swaziland, Mr. Stephan Magagula, the two bills he had a hand in drafting in 2015 have now been passed into law.

In July, a delegation from the OAPI Office attended the 66th series of annual meetings of the Assemblies of the Member States of the World Intellectual Property Office in Geneva.