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HSM Welcomes Four Interns to 2025 Summer Internship Programme
The HSM Group is proud to continue its summer internship programme with four young professionals: Jayden Nembhard, Shannell Stewart, Azaria Ruiz‑Bodden and Ahmoya Morrison. These individuals were a part of the 2024-25 CIFEC internship curriculum, which began in October 2024 through Read more +
Cayman Trade Mark Spotlight: The Security Centre
Kate Cleary, an Intellectual Property Manager at HSM IP, reached out to The Security Centre to get its feedback on registering their trade mark in the Cayman Islands. Kate spoke with Natasha Whitelocke (Director – Admin, Compliance & Regulatory Affairs) Read more +
WIPR Leaders Directory 2025 Recognises HSM IP Team
World Intellectual Property Review (WIPR) launched a new Caribbean category in their 2025 Leaders Directory and HSM IP is pleased to have three members of their team recognised: Managing Partner, Huw Moses; Senior IP Manager, Mrinali Menon and IP Manager, Read more +
HSM IP Named Caribbean Firm of the Year 2025 by Managing IP
HSM IP has been named Caribbean Firm of the Year by the Managing IP Awards 2025 Americas. Mrinali Menon (HSM IP Senior Manager) accepted our award at their Awards Ceremony on 24 April 2025. More than 200 guests attended the Read more +
Two of HSM IP’s Legal Assistants bring the Unreal Campaign to a school in the Cayman Islands!
On 22 November 2017, Kenyah Pinnock and Lisa Chin-Forde of HSM IP Ltd. presented INTA’s Unreal Campaign to a class of twenty Creative Media and Business students aged 15 and 16 year at the Cayman Islands Further Education Centre (“CIFEC”). CIFEC is a school dedicated to offering students continuing opportunities after Year 12 and is committed to inspiring all learners to develop the knowledge, skills and understanding to equip them for success in the wider world.
Kenyah Pinnock started off the presentation by explaining the concepts of trade marks and counterfeiting to the students and provided some background on the Unreal Campaign and its purpose. Kenyah said: “I gave the students examples of the different types of trade marks, including words, designs, trade get ups and non-traditional marks and went on to impress upon the students the importance of trade marks to both consumers and companies. I think that they found it most interesting to hear how even the shape of buildings could be registered as trade marks under certain circumstances”.
Lisa Chin-Forde delivered the second part of the presentation which focused on counterfeiting and engaged them in a lively game of “Real vs. Fake”. The students actively took part in discussions about the concept of counterfeiting and the importance of observing and enforcing trade mark and anti-counterfeiting legislation. Lisa said, “All in all we seemed to get through to the students the necessity of making smart purchasing choices as consumers and making sure that they are purchasing real branded goods rather than counterfeit goods. After we had delivered our full presentation, the students and teachers were kind enough to thank us personally for lending our time to educate them on such an important topic. It was a very rewarding experience”.
Owing to its heritage and geographical position, the Cayman Islands enjoys access to a vast number brands from around the world, including those from the Caribbean, the UK and the USA to mention but a few. At HSM we passionately believe in the importance of IP education and it was both fun and rewarding to spend a morning raising awareness of the negative impact of counterfeiting on communities large and small. We look forward to delivering our next Unreal presentation and spreading the message even further!
Ms. Lisa Chin-Forde Presenting to CIFEC students
Ms. Kenyah Pinnock Presenting to CIFEC students