Innovation in Small States - A Caribbean Outlook

Event Details

This workshop offers an overview of intellectual property (IP) as an innovation tool, focussing on underlying IP-related assets that fuel international commerce, including leveraging country names to boost nation brand value, especially for small States, and emerging economies like Jamaica and other Caribbean States, dependent on furnishing developed countries with raw materials. Participants will be given insight on how IP mechanisms can be used to innovate competition in a global marketplace that remains characterized by post-colonial strictures and dissymmetry of economic prowess.

Discussions will explore the significance of geographic space in a competitive marketplace, the significance of place name branding especially for Caribbean countries seeking to leverage their national and regional competitive identity, using IP as a means to culturally differentiate goods and services and heighten relevance.

Against this background, the workshop component will offer interactive engagement that will assist with the development of informed, effective and functional IP savvy stakeholders; provide an awareness of IP Assessment needs, in particular improve the stakeholder's ability to identify and resolve IP needs.

By the end of the workshop participants will have a deeper appreciation for substantive IP Law, intellectual property rights (IPRs) and their role in value creation, and will be able to critically assess how legal principles related to IP innovation apply to practical situations.

Topics for Discussion

• Introduction to Intellectual Property
• Regulatory Framework for IP Rights
• Management of IP assets
• Geographical Indications and National Competitive Identity
• Trade Marks and branding
• Cross Border Challenges with IP Protection
• Comparative Examples - Jamaica Rum and Scotch whisky

  
Speakers and Discussants:

• Dr Natalie Corthésy, The University of the West Indies, Jamaica
• Prof. Enrico Bonadio, City University
  
• Dianne Daley McClure IP Attorney at law Jamaica
• Keesha Fleming Lake, Cervieri Monsuárez Caribbean Office
• Grace Lindo, IP Attorney-at-Law Jamaica
• Dr Andrea Zappalaglio, Leeds University

 
Who is the session for?

The event would be beneficial for legal practitioners, students, law academics and representatives of governments, civil society organizations and business entrepreneurs with an interest in intellectual property or who engage in or are seeking to engage in business relationships with countries in the Caribbean.

The event will be followed by a training workshop facilitated by Dr Corthésy's applying her IP Tabanca teaching tool.

This Workshop is conceptualized by Dr Natalie Corthésy, The University of the West Indies Jamaica and Visiting Researcher BIICL.

Testimonial

"Dr Corthésy's IP Tabanca teaching tool was delivered to great effect at The UWI St Augustine's 'Innovation Engine Room: Intellectual Property Law and Innovation Workshop' held on 31 July 2024. The teaching tool was used to solidify the knowledge that participants received throughout the course of the day's proceedings and was well received given the complete immersion of all the participants including staff of the Trinidad and Tobago IP Office and the presenters from a range of backgrounds such as finance, law, engineering and arts and design. The tool is versatile and can be pitched at audiences with varied IP knowledge and moreover, can be used across cultural divides due to the width of IP as a subject."
  
Dr Justin Koo, Academic Organiser for Innovation Engine Room

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Dr Natalie Corthésy is qualified to practice as an attorney-at-law in Jamaica. She is a graduate of The UWI Faculty of Law Cave Hill, the Norman Manley Law School, University College London, Queen Mary University of London. She served as the Associate Dean of Outreach and Continuing Legal Education at The UWI Faculty of Law Mona for 4 years. As former Programme Coordinator of the faculty's LLM in IP and the Cultural and Creative Industries, she was instrumental in its conceptualization and launch with the assistance of the World Intellectual Property Organisation. She is a member of the Association for Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property, The IP Unit-The UWI Cave Hill, Jamaica Bar Association's IP Law Committee and the Jamaica Copyright Licensing Agency. She has served as a Member of the Advisory Board of the Jamaica Intellectual Property Office, the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission, and is a member of the National Technical Working Group on Brand Jamaica. Prior to academia, Natalie served in Jamaica's civil service for 10 years as Legal Officer at Ministry of Labour, Director of Copyright and Related Rights at the Jamaica Intellectual Property Office, and Director of Entertainment Policy at the Ministry of Tourism and Culture.

Grace Lindo is a commercial and data protection lawyer based in Kingston, Jamaica. She is a licensed corporate services provider via her affiliated entity, Canoe Corporate. Her practice includes commercial law, corporate governance, IP, data protection, technology transactions, trade, special economic zone laws and otherregulatory matters. A Chevening Scholar, Grace holds an LL.M in Competition, Trade and Innovation from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She has been recognized as a leading trademark professional in the Caribbean by the World Trade Mark Review (WTR) since 2014. Grace is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPPE) and served as an ICANN Fellow from 2017 to 2019. She is an active member of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce and the Jamaican Bar Association as well as a Notary Public.

Dr Andrea Zappalaglio is an Associate Professor in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Leeds (UK). He specialises in Intellectual Property, with a focus on Branding, Sustainability, and Unfair Competition Law. He has collaborated with various European and international institutions, including the European Commission and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation.
 

Keesha Fleming Lake, LLM is the owner and Managing Partner of Keesha Fleming Lake LLC in Anguilla. She is an experienced attorney who has provided legal services to her clients for over 23 years. Keesha was born and raised in the Caribbean and maintains a professional and social residence between Anguilla and Florida. She is a registered attorney in the US: Michigan, Florida and Missouri and also in the Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis.

Enrico Bonadio is Professor of Law at City St. George's, University of London. He teaches, researches, and advises in the field of IP law. His research agenda is wide-ranging, focusing on IP protection of non-conventional forms of creativity and innovation, amongst other areas. He is the author of numerous publications on several aspects of IP law, including books, academic articles, book chapters and journalistic pieces. Enrico is also Deputy Editor in Chief of the European Journal of Risk Regulation and member of the Editorial Boards of the European Intellectual Property Review and the NUART Journal.

Dianne Daley McClure,  IP Attorney-at-Law Jamaica