At the fifth Project Steering Committee (PSC) meeting of 9 February 2024, in Bridgetown, Barbados, the CARIFORUM Innovation and Intellectual Property Project (CarIPI) project presented a summary report on the part it played in the 11th European Development Fund Support Programme. In addition, it presented a schedule and gave timelines for the activities it has planned for 2024.
The online capacity building activity on design examination is co-organised with the IP cooperation project IP KEY Latin America and aims to enhance the skills of IP registrars, particularly industrial design examiners, of the IP offices of the MERCOSUR countries and Chile, as well as other Latin American countries.
The 2-day training, delivered by EUIPO experts, aims to extend EU methodologies and procedures in design examination by addressing topics such as:
On 16 February, the CARIFORUM Intellectual Property and Innovation Project (CarIPI) joined forces with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and the Commerce and Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to host a hybrid session on Blue Horizons: Innovation and Intellectual Property (IP) for Sustainable Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
The conference is being organised by the CARIFORUM Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation Project (CarIPI), in collaboration with the Academy for Law of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) and the Jamaican Intellectual Property Office (JIPO). The activity is part of an AL-INVEST Verde IPR initiative to develop a compendium of case-law on trade mark law.
From 5 to 6 March 2024, the CARIFORUM Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation project (CarIPI), in collaboration with the AL-INVEST Verde IPR project, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Academy for Law, and the Jamaica Intellectual Property Office (JIPO), hosted an IP Caselaw Conference for judges from Chile, CARIFORUM and MERCOSUR Member States and legal IP practitioners based in Jamaica.
The AL-INVEST Verde IPR Mentorship Programme (ALINVmentor I) is the first of its kind in a series of mentoring programmes to enhance the use and development of intellectual property rights (IPRs), especially geographical indications (GIs) and trade marks. These IPRs are integral to driving innovation, competitiveness, and sustainability.
From 12 to 16 February 2024, CarIPI organised face-to-face meetings between mentors and producer groups from Grenada and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, which have been selected to take part in the second phase of the project’s Mentorship Programme.