On 22 May 2023, the CARIFORUM Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation (CarIPI) project hosted a webinar on ‘IP Scan as basis of a business IP strategy’. The project will present the IP Scan initiative with business support organisations in the region.

IP Scan provides valuable information that can be used by micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) to:

On 18 April 2023, the CARIFORUM Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation (CarIPI) team hosted an online meeting with the examiners and legal drafters of the Intellectual Property Office of St. Kitts and Nevis (IPOSKN) to discuss the content of the draft Bill on Designs.

At present, the country does not have industrial design legislation. St. Kitts and Nevis has expressed interest in receiving legal assistance from the project in this regard, resuming the work started in previous years of CarIPI.

On 17 April 2023, the CARIFORUM Intellectual Property and Innovation Project (CarIPI) published a manual on Types of Marks and Distinctiveness of Trade Marks as a result of the joint efforts of the Intellectual Property Offices and Registries of Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO).