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PROTECTION OF COUNTRY NAMES: PURSUED BY CARIBBEAN COUNTRY-DELEGATE

The governments of Jamaica and Barbados expressed their opposition to unauthorized use of a country name for trade purposes of someone who does not have any affiliation with the country. Such use increases the risk on the economies of developing countries, they say.

This week, the two Caribbean countries referred to the World Intellectual Property Organization, making a request to render a study regarding the protection of country names. This is in context of the WIPO Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT).

Last January, during SCT’s last session, Barbados and Jamaica submitted a proposal comprising of a three-phase work plan. Later on, Jamaica presented supplementary documents for the purpose of facilitating the effectuation of the earlier work plan.

Just last Thursday, Barbados and Jamaica showed their strong hold on pushing their proposals to be carried out by WIPO, by submitting the revised version of the proposal for the study relative to country names protection, which contains terms of reference. This study is set to focus on the provisions in each of the national and regional intellectual property protection laws, which relates to the protection of country names, most especially in the discipline of trademark.

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