By virtue of the Patents and Trade Marks Law (1995 Revision) as amended, together with the Patents and Trade Marks Regulations, any patent registered in the United Kingdom may be registered in the Cayman Islands. In addition, patents granted:-
(a) under the Convention on the Grant of European Patents designating the United Kingdom, and which under the law of the United Kingdom are treated as if they were patents granted under that law, and
(b) under the Community Patent Convention,
are deemed to be patents granted in the United Kingdom for the purposes of the Caymanian statute. No other patent may be recorded in the Islands.
By the same Law, any trade mark (which expression includes a service mark indicating that a particular person is connected in the course of business with the provision of particular services) registered in the United Kingdom or in accordance with Regulation (EC) No. 40/94 made by the Council of European Union on 20th December, 1993 ("the European