04/01/2013 In 2009 Jamaican pharmaceutical companies Medimpex Jamaica Limited and Lasco Distributors Limited won a patent infringement battle over amlodipine…
14/01/2010 Through a long-awaited ruling under Jamaica’s archaic Patent Law of 1857, local pharmaceutical companies Medimpex Jamaica Limited and Lasco Distributors Limited emerged victors over pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Limited when judgment was handed down in their favour on July 29 2009.
01/01/2011 After a five-year wait, the eagerly anticipated Geographical Indications Act came into force on June 8 2009, having originally been passed into law in 2004.
04/01/2012 In early 2011 Jamaica’s Supreme Court issued a critical ruling on the Copyright Act which directly impacts on the telecommunications industry, as well as developers and users of databases in Jamaica.
28/01/2009 With its increasing prominence in global trade, intellectual property has become an inescapable issue for developing countries, several of which have reluctantly embraced the modern IP regimes mandated by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of IP Rights (TRIPs).