Foga Daley IP Partner, Dianne Daley McClure, has been appointed Chairman of the Copyright Tribunal, the Trade Mark Appeals Tribunal and the Design Rights Tribunal of the Cayman Islands, effective March 1, 2021. She will serve on the Tribunals for the next three years. The Copyright Tribunal was established pursuant to Chapter VIII of the […]
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On January 23, 2020, the Jamaican Parliament passed the long-awaited Patents and Designs Act (the “New Act”). The New Act, which had gone through several iterations since Jamaica signed on to the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement in 1995, was passed by the House of Representatives on December 3, 2019, and was given the nod
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In 2015 sweeping changes were made to Jamaica’s Copyright Act through the Copyright (Amendment) Act of 2015 in force July 30, 2015 including new and expanded rights for copyright owners and performers and with that, new liabilities, offences and exceptions to infringement and a revival of Crown Copyright. Perhaps, most impactful, is an extension of
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Prior to 2015, there was no statutory registration system in Jamaica and no requirement for registration under the Copyright Act. With the passage of Jamaica’s Copyright Act of 1993, the government of Jamaica policy was to not impose a statutory system of copyright registration based on the principle of automatic protection under the Berne Convention,
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