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Rachael is a member of the Firm’s Intellectual Property and Commercial Departments and focuses on complex trademark matters, including non-routine applications, responding to office actions, opposition and revocation proceedings and trademark portfolio management. Other practice areas include Patent prosecution, Entertainment, Media and Advertising Law and Copyright Law. In the Commercial Department she handles corporate matters, including company formation and statutory compliance.

Rachael graduated from the University of the West Indies (UWI) in 2014 with a Bachelor of Laws Degree with Honours and graduated from the Norman Manley Law School in 2016 after obtaining her Legal Education Certificate. She was called to the Jamaican Bar in December 2016 and is a member of the Jamaican Bar Association (JAMBAR). Rachael is an active member of JAMBAR’s Telecommunications, Broadcasting and Technology Subcommittee and the Intellectual Property Subcommittee, where she also serves as secretary.

Rachael has Certificates from the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) for participating in WIPO’s Intellectual Property Summer School in Jamaica and completing WIPO’s General Course on Intellectual Property. Rachael also received Patent Training through the TBT Programme and Jamaica Intellectual Property Office (JIPO) and has a Certificate of Participation for successful completion of training in Patent Examination in 2016. She has also received training in Patent Drafting at the WIPO Sub-Regional Patent Drafting Course in 2017.

Rachael has distinguished herself in Intellectual Property, Data Protection and Commercial Law and has gained special recognition as a young practitioner in the international trademark community. She is an associate member of the International Trademark Association (INTA) and serves on INTA’s Young Practitioners Committee. Rachael is also a member of the Women’s IP Today steering committee, a non-profit organization advancing the interests and rights of women in the workplace globally

Rachael tutors Entertainment Law at the Faculty of Law, UWI, Mona, and has a keen interest in Sports Law. She is an athlete and enjoys swimming and playing water polo and has represented the University of the West Indies in various swimming competitions and has represented Jamaica in water polo both regionally and internationally. As part of the Jamaican team, Rachael has earned silver medals at the CARIFTA games in 2007, 2008 and 2012, as well as a gold medal at the Caribbean Island Swimming Championships in 2008. In her spare time, Rachael coaches the ‘Pickney Polo’ 10 and under water polo teams for the Jamaica Water Polo Union. Rachael also enjoys playing the violin and is past member of the Jamaica Young People Symphony and Music House String Ensemble, winning Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) awards for individual and group violin pieces.

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She has a Bachelor of Laws Degree with Honors from the University of the West Indies (UWI) and a Master’s Degree in Comparative Law specializing in IP and International Copyright from McGill University, where she attended as a Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) scholar.

Dianne was called to the Jamaican Bar in 1990 and has 27 years’ experience in IP law administration and practice. Her first job in the field was as legal director and head of Jamaica’s Copyright Office in 1995 where she advised the government on IP legislative and policy issues and represented Jamaica as an IP Expert at international forums including the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and UNESCO. Dianne was active in the negotiations of the WIPO Internet Treaties. She coordinated the establishment of the Jamaica Intellectual Property Office (JIPO) in 2001 and served as its acting chairman for 2 years.

Dianne is the Chairman of the Cayman Islands Appeals [Trademarks] Tribunal, Design Rights Tribunal and the Copyright Tribunal. She is also Chairman of the Jamaican Copyright Licensing Agency (JAMCOPY) and Company Secretary for the Jamaica Music Society (JAMMS), National Copyright Management Organizations.

Dianne has chaired the Jamaican Bar Association’s (JAMBAR) IP Committee for the past 10 years. She is a longstanding member of the International Trademark Association (INTA) and an active INTA Volunteer. She is a Vice President of the Association of European Lawyers (AEA). Other professional memberships include:

Dianne has authored several publications on IP including a Monograph on Jamaica: Intellectual Property, International Encyclopaedia of Laws, Kluwer Law International, Intellectual Property – Suppl. 47 (2008) (being updated) and the Jamaica Chapter on Copyright in Copyright throughout the World, West (updated 2020). She is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, the University of the West Indies (UWI) where she lectures Entertainment Law. She is also a WIPO Tutor and course director for Patent Law and Copyright Law for the master of laws programme at UWI Cave Hill and has lectured on the master’s programme on IP in the Creative and Cultural Industries, UWI Mona.

Dianne has been a recommended trademark practitioner making the list of recommended Caribbean firms and individual practitioners in World Trademark Review’s (WTR 1000), a definitive guide to the World’s Leading Trademark Professionals for several years. She was one of only 2 women from the Caribbean to make the list of “IP STARS Top 250 Women in IP for 2017” and Foga Daley was one of two recommended firms from the Caribbean for 2022.

Outside of work, Dianne is a singer and songwriter of Christian music and a Praise & Worship leader at church and is passionate about fulfilling God’s call on her life.

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