AL-INVEST Verde IPR activities include events such as seminars, lectures, courses etc. Also, various types of studies are carried out and reports are produced. Below is an overview of the ongoing and planned studies.

On 19 January 2024, CarIPI will hold an online wrap up meeting, hosting its Origin-linked Products (OLPs) producers’ groups from Cohort 1 of the Mentorship Programme. They will go through the recommendations made by experts on how these groups can improve their product using intellectual property (IP) tools.

On 20 February the CarIPI project organised an online consultation meeting with CARIFORUM IP Offices and Ministries of Education to present the results of the work carried out under this activity, namely a regional strategy to introduce IP in primary and secondary schools of CARIFORUM and the material for teachers and students based on the EUIPO’s ideaspowered@school project and adapted to the Caribbean context.

On 29 January 2024, CarIPI hosted a workshop for regional business support organisations (BSOs) and micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) to present IP Scan cases as part of the IP Scan initiative in the CARIFORUM region.

Previous work under the ‘IP Scan and IP Valuation for MSMEs’ activity has included three IP Scans in the Caribbean region. These three specific IP Scan cases involving Caribbean small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will be presented to demonstrate the potential of IP Scans.