While millions watched Usain Bolt's triple gold medal and world-record breaking performances, some were making plans to profit from the celebrity's rise to stardom.

Jamaica has recently amended its trademark laws. Dianne Daley, Foga Daley, details the changes that are most impactful on IP practice.

In early 2011 Jamaica's Supreme Court issued a critical ruling on the Copyright Act which directly impacts on the telecommunications industry.

After a five-year wait, the eagerly anticipated Geographical Indications Act came into force on June 8 2009, having originally been passed into law in 2004.

Intellectual Property (IP) practitioners in Jamaica have arguably witnessed more significant changes in the IP legal landscape in the last two years, than they have two decades prior.

After several years of exhaustive consultations, protracted deliberations and draft laws, a new Patents and Designs Act was passed by the Jamaican Parliament in January 2020, ...

In 2009 Jamaican pharmaceutical companies Medimpex Jamaica Limited and Lasco Distributors Limited won a patent infringement battle over amlodipine besylate.

What started out as a quest by Pfizer to enforce its local patent against Jamaican distributors of the generic drug turned into an issue about the validity of Pfizer’s Jamaican patent.

When I embarked on my journey into intellectual property law and administration several years ago, I could never have imagined what today's Caribbean intellectual property landscape would look like.

The Trademarks Act is modelled on the UK Trademarks Act 1994, and case law interpreting the UK act provides guidance and persuasive precedent.

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