Patent and Trade Mark Annual Fee Update
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April 16, 2019
IPCA launched its first essay competition in 2018 and asked participants to cover one of the following topics:
- How would you improve Intellectual Property law in the Caribbean?
- How would you improve Intellectual Property law in any particular Caribbean country?
The purpose of the IPCA Essay Competition is to spark interest in the field of Intellectual Property (IP) law and to help promote IP rights in the Caribbean. In accordance with the competition rules, entrants had to be law students, articled clerks, trainee lawyers or newly qualified lawyers in the Caribbean. The prizes were US$2,000 for the winner and US$1,000 for the runner-up.
Winners
Congratulations to winner Brittney Elliott-Williams from Jamaica and runner-up Coilin Flynn from the Cayman Islands.
Brittney’s essay covered how she would improve IP in the Caribbean – click here to read her essay.
Coilin’s essay covered how he would improve IP in the Cayman Islands – click here to read his essay.
IPCA Essay Competition
This year’s IPCA Essay Competition is underway. The 2019 essay-writing topic is “The social and economic impact of counterfeiting versus the existing legal and administrative measures in their (Caribbean) country”. Click here for more details on how to enter.