It's finally here! Jamaica's modern Patents and Designs Act is in effect as of February 11, 2022, doing away with the Patent Act of 1857 and the Designs Act of 1937.

Intellectual Property Partner Dianne Daley is among the top 250 women from around the world in Intellectual Property.

After nearly 56 years of independence from Great Britain Jamaica's IP Laws have undergone considerable changes including some stark departures from English Law particularly in the realms of copyright and passing off.

On January 23, 2020, the Jamaican Parliament passed the long-awaited Patents and Designs Act (the "New Act").

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.

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

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, ...

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.