Jamaica IP: Trademarks, Patents, Industrial Designs, Copyright and Domain Names

Jamaica is situated in the Caribbean Sea. It is about 145 kilometres (90 mi) south of Cuba, and 190 kilometres (120 mi) west of the island of Hispaniola, on which Haiti and the Dominican Republic are situated. Its indigenous Arawakan-speaking Taíno inhabitants named the island Xaymaca, meaning the "Land of Wood and Water", or the "Land of Springs".

Formerly a Spanish possession known as Santiago, it later became the British Crown colony of Jamaica. It is the third most populous anglophone country in North America, after the United States and Canada. It remains a Commonwealth realm.

General Information

Capital:

Kingston

Population:

2.8 Million

Languages:

English

Government Type:

Parliamentary democracy and Constitutional monarchy

Dialing Code:

+876

Timezone:

GMT -5

Monetary Unit:

Jamaican dollar (JMD)

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International Arrangements

WIPO Convention
Paris Convention (Industrial Property)
Berne Convention (Literary and Artistic Works)
Nice Agreement (International Classification of Goods and Services)
Rome Convention (Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations)
Geneva Convention (Unauthorized Duplication of Phonograms)
Vienna Agreement (International Classification of the Figurative Elements of Marks)
Brussels Convention (Distribution of Programme-Carrying Signals Transmitted by Satellite)
Nairobi Treaty (Olympic Symbol)
WCT (WIPO Copyright Treaty)
WPPT (WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty)
WTO: Member and Signatory to TRIPS Agreement

Patents

Types of Patents
- Patents of Invention
- Patents of PCT

Filing requirements
- Application
- Power of attorney
- Legalized declaration as to ownership
- Specification in duplicate
- Drawings in duplicate

Granting:
- Fourteen years from the date of grant

Trademarks

Filing requirements:
- Details of the mark.
- Visual representation of the mark (a faxed copy will suffice).
- Class (s) in which mark is to be registered (the Nice Classification is used in Jamaica), and a reasonably precise description of the goods and/or services on which it is used or to be used.
- Particulars of the applicant (name, address, nationality, country of incorporation, etc).
- An executed Authorization of Agent.

Granting:
- Seven years

Renewals:
- Every fourteen years

Designs and Models

Filing requirements:
- Information not found

Granting:
- Fifteen years

Renewals:
- No extension possible

Copyrights

Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works

As a member of the Berne Convention, it is possible to copyright protect creative works in this country, as well as all the other member nations automatically (more than 160 countries), with one single application.

For more information and to submit us your works for worldwide copyright protection, click here.

Domain Names

Domain extension:

.jm

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Jamaica IP: Trademarks, Patents, Industrial Designs, Copyright and Domain Names