The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), leading global authority on intellectual property, has launched the second phase of the CARIFORUM Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation project (CarIPI), an international cooperation initiative designed to strengthen the innovation and IP ecosystems across the Caribbean region.
As of 16 December 2024, the Intellectual Property Office of Suriname (BIE) will accept the terms from the harmonised database of goods and services (HDB) in the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) TMclass search and classification tool.
As of 16 September 2024, the National Industrial Property Office of the Dominican Republic (ONAPI) has made its trade mark data available in the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) TMview search tool.
With the addition of more than 298 000 trade marks from ONAPI, TMview now provides information and access to more than 125,3 million trade marks in total, from 78 participating offices.
The CARIFORUM Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation Project (CarIPI) has just published a video entitled ‘Savoring Tradition: The Journey of Jamaican Jerk as a Geographical Indication’.
This video was produced by the CarIPI project and it portrays the journey of the Jamaica Jerk producers and how they have benefitted from the use of geographical indications (GI) to protect and promote this origin-linked product (OLP).
EUIPO has published a Call for Expression of Interest to compile a list of vendors interested in providing independent and specialised expertise on IP rights.
The CARIFORUM Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation Project (CarIPI) will end on 30 April 2024, and to mark its conclusion, a conference event was held in Alicante on 15 and 16 April 2024, to review achievements, assess results and focus on future opportunities for cooperation.
As of 15 April 2024, the Trinidad and Tobago Intellectual Property Office (TTIPO) has made its trade mark data available in the TMview search tool.
With the TTIPO on board, the TMview tool now contains data from 77 participating offices, and with the addition of more than 55 500 trade marks from the TTIPO, TMview now provides information and access to more than 121 million trade marks in total.
In celebration of World IP Day on 26 April, which theme for 2024 is “IP and the SDGs: Building our common future with innovation and creativity”, CarIPI will collaborate with the different national IP Offices in CARIFORUM in promoting the activities they undertake in the margins of IP Week.
The CARIFORUM Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation project (CarIPI), has just published a manual on regional geographical indications (GI), intended as a comprehensive guide for producers or producer groups, control bodies and IP offices. The manual outlines the necessary steps, requirements and outcomes associated with GI protection.