CARIPI

After a first training session aimed at enhancing the skills and capacity of design examiners of the CARIFORUM IP Offices on design examination, a second session was organised by CarIPI on 4th March to cover some practical aspects of design examination. Focus topics: Product indication, Classification of Designs, the Locarno Agreement, and the concept of deferment of publication for Registered Community Designs.

With the objective of strengthening the technical capacities and skills of the CARIFORUM IPO staff examiners in the field of designs, CarIPI organised a series of online trainings on design examination (ref. Activity 5 of AWP2).

During a first session held on 26th Feb, designs experts from the EU and CARIFORUM met to exchange best practices and share knowledge on design examination.

This webinar targeted senior officers from Customs Authorities of the 16 CARIFORUM countries with experience in IPR enforcement.

In particular, EU and CARIFORUM enforcement experts discussed recent trends on risk management systems, with many examples from the region, and focus to the present day IPR infringements in Pharma (Covid-19).

This webinar aims to raise awareness of GI specifications and controls among producer groups, national standard setting bodies and related agencies/stakeholders, and exchange knowledge of the key role of control bodies/competent authorities in the management of a GI system

CarIPI will soon launch eLearning content on GIs, to spread GI knowledge in the Caribbean.

This webinar aims to enhance knowledge and skills of the business sector in Antigua and Barbuda on the use of the Madrid International Registration System. In promoting the Madrid Sytem, CarIPI wants to promote global branding among A&B entrepreneurs.

This webinar is part of activity 15 of the CarIPI work plan, which encourages the private sector (especially SMEs, micro-enterprises and indigenous communities) to create, protect and manage their own value chains and use IPR as a competitive tool.

On 17 December CarIPI organised a virtual on-the-job training for officials from Caribbean IPOs on the implementation of Madrid System operations.

The participating IP offices, such as Trinidad and Tobago, where the Madrid International Registration System entered into force on 12 January 2021, benefitted from this training particularly focussed on the role of the IPO as an Office of Origin and as the Office of a designated Contracting Party.

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In 2020, the CarIPI project started to develop a model Geographical Indication (GI) law which can be used by CARIFORUM States to modernise their legal frameworks. As a first step, a review of the currently-applicable legislation on GIs in the 16 CARIFORUM states was conducted and feedback shared and discussed with the IPOs of each country.