Jamaica joins the main international treaties on Industrial Property
Jamaica has recently signed several of the main international treaties on Industrial Property for the protection of trademarks, designs and inventions.
Jamaica’s entry in these treaties will allow its nationals and residents to access international protection systems to protect their Industrial Property assets in third countries. It also will allow foreign applicants to obtain protection in Jamaica for their trademarks, designs and inventions through these international agreements which simplify and unify the application and registration process.
Trademarks
Regarding the protection of trademarks, Jamaica has signed the Madrid Protocol, thus becoming country number 126 part of this system of protection of International Trademarks. Protection of this territory may be requested as of March 27, 2022, both in new trademark applications filed after that date, and in trademarks already registered through the subsequent designation system.
Designs
With regard to design protection, Jamaica has signed the Hague Agreementon International Design Protection. This way, the new international designs that are filed after February 10, 2022 will be able to request protection in Jamaica in addition to the countries that already signed this agreement, thus a total of 93 member countries. The term of protection for these international designs designating Jamaica will be 15 years from the date of filing.
Inventions
And finally, Jamaica becomes the 154th Stateto sign the Patent Cooperation Treaty – PCT, one of the main international agreements for the protection of inventions. All new PCT international applications filed afterFebruary 10, 2022will also designate this country and will grant their applicants the possibility of obtaining protection for their inventions in this territory.
