IP Documents

This section offers a repository of relevant publications, frameworks, treaties and laws in the CARIFORUM region and member states.

Regional Industrial Design Practice and Law in CARIFORUM

• Graphic-Representation of Designs Fiche CarIPI [PDF - 0.40MB] [EN] [ES]
• Industrial Design Law and Practice in the CARIFORUM Region - Ernesto Rubio [PDF – 1.00MB] [EN]

Practice Fiche

• Graphic-Representation of Designs Fiche CarIPI [PDF - 0.40MB] [EN] [ES]

Information on International IP Treaties

• The Madrid Protocol in Jamaica [PDF - 12.6MB] [EN]
• El Sistema de Madrid en Cuba [PDF - 11.51MB] [ES]
• The Madrid Protocol in Trinidad and Tobago [PDF - 5.3MB] [EN]
• The Madrid Protocol in Antigua and Barbuda [PDF - 4MB] [EN]
• Trinidad and Tobago Fact Sheet Madrid [PDF - 12.5MB] [EN]
• Antigua and Barbuda Fact Sheet Madrid [PDF – 5.7MB] [EN]
• Belize Fact Sheet Hague [PDF – 5.7MB] [EN]
• The Hague System in Belize [PDF - 12.97MB] [EN]

Case studies

• Windward Commodities Case Study [PDF – 1.8MB] [EN]
• Trinindad and Tobago Fine Cocoa Company [PDF – 2.5MB] [EN]
• Grenadine Sea Salt Case Study [PDF – 1.4MB] [EN]

CARIFORUM Countries IP Legislation

1. Antigua and Barbuda
2. Bahamas
3. Barbados
4. Belize
5. Dominica
6. Dominican Republic
7. Grenada
8. Guyana
9. Haiti
10. Jamaica
11. St Lucia
12. St Vincent and the Grenadines
13. St Kitts and Nevis
14. Suriname
15. Trinidad and Tobago
16. Cuba

Other relevant links:

• Economic Partnership Agreement between the CARIFORUM States, of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part
• European Commission – Information on Trade with the Caribbean
• Caribbean Export Development Agency
• Treaty of Chaguaramas (CARICOM)