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Printer-friendly versionMINISTER OF INDUSTRY, INVESTMENT AND COMMERCE
Intellectual Property Week is an opportunity for reflection and to ensure that all Jamaicans work together to create, own, and exploit works of creativity, research results, new technologies, and innovations.With the incentive provided by intellectual property rights, technologies and creations that have touched and changed millions of lives would probably not exist today. Copyright, for example, has stimulated the development of vibrant local cultures, and encouraged their dissemination worldwide. Witness, for example, the international popularity of reggae, whose growth,...Read more
MINISTER OF STATE: INDUSTRY, INVESTMENT AND COMMERCE
Rapid innovation and its global adoption has transformed our outlook. We are now linked – physically, intellectually, socially and culturally – in ways that were impossible to imagine. We can cross continents in a few hours. From almost anywhere on the planet, we can access information, see and speak to each other, select music, and take and send photographs, using a device small enough to fit in the palm of a hand.Read more
WIPO DIRECTOR
World Intellectual Property Day - 2010
Innovation - Linking the World
Relatively few decades ago, the world remained vast and largely unknown for most people. Travel was costly and long. Knowledge was paper-based and hard to share. Telephone service was, in many places, non-existent. Outside of large cities, access to foreign culture and the arts was limited.Rapid innovation and its global adoption has transformed our outlook. We are now linked – physically, intellectually...Read more
CHAIRMAN, JIPO
"Paving the way to growth and development through the protection of intellectual property rights", is our motto at the Jamaica Intellectual Property Office (JIPO).We believe our motto to be true as increasingly, Jamaica is recognizing the importance of intellectual property rights and the economic returns that are to begained from the positive impact of our strong Jamaican brands, in trade, in our creative industries that have given to the world reggae music, our fashion industry, our distinctive culinary style, and the visual and performing arts, just to name a few.Read more
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, JIPO
The Creativity of our people exists across the length and breath of our beautiful isle. JIPO as the office charged with the responsibility to educate and disseminate information on Intellectual Property (IP) Rights seeks to ensure that the rights of Jamaica as a state and the rights of Jamaican creators and owners of intellectual property rights receive the just remuneration and recognition. In the global village in which we live, it is the ability to distinguish oneself by the creations of the mind or by the physical creations that ...Read more
