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Bermuda’s Revamped Trade Marks Law to Take Effect on 1 January 2025
The Bermuda Registry General has officially announced that the much-anticipated new trade marks law, the Trade Marks Act 2023, will come into effect on 1 January 2025, replacing the Trade Marks Act 1974. The new law brings with it several Read more +
Empowering Creativity: How Cayman Island’s New IP Rules Will Support Domestic Entrepreneurs!
Good news for Caymanian brand owners! On 20 August 2024, the Cayman Islands Government announced its decision to amend the Trade Marks Act, 2016, and the Trade Mark Regulations, 2017, with the aim of making it more convenient and accessible Read more +
Who’s Who Legal Recommends Huw Moses in IP Trademarks 2024 Guide
Who’s Who Legal (WWL) has featured Huw Moses as a notable Intellectual Property expert in their recently released 2024 Trademarks Guide. WWL says “Huw Moses is a reputable name in intellectual property. He is well known for having a major Read more +
Cayman Trade Mark Spotlight: Jacques Scott
Kate Cleary, an Intellectual Property Manager at HSM IP, reached out to Peter Dutton, Managing Director at Jacques Scott to get his feedback on registering his trade mark in the Cayman Islands. HSM IP is a specialist intellectual property law Read more +
HSM IP Presents INTA Unreal Campaign to CIFEC Students
HSM IP was pleased to present the International Trademark Association’s (INTA) Unreal Campaign to over 25 students at the Cayman Islands Further Education Centre (CIFEC) on 8 December 2023.
HSM IP’s Mrinali Menon (Senior IP Manager) and Shirly Ramirez (IP Administrative Assistant) led two classroom presentations, in which they covered the importance of trade marks, intellectual property and the dangers of counterfeit products.
The INTA Unreal Campaign is a global programme taught all over the world and is geared towards 14- to 23-year-olds. HSM IP has delivered seven of these presentations in the Cayman Islands across different schools.
A trade mark is an important identifier. It can be a word, design, service mark, building shape and more. Mrinali and Shirly also stressed the economic impacts of people purchasing knockoffs and how these inferior products can affect people’s health as well as safety.
As part of the presentation, the students enjoyed a game of “spot a fake”, where they had to guess between two similar looking products and identify the reasons as to why one of them was the fake.
HSM IP Managing Partner, Huw Moses shares, “the holidays can make people more susceptible to counterfeit goods and we are proud to do our part in bringing awareness to this issue.”
HSM IP is a specialist intellectual property law practice based in the Cayman Islands and specialises in the Caribbean/Latin America market. They support major Fortune Global 500 brand owners, international law firms and other specialist IP practices.
If you would like the team at HSM IP to prepare this presentation for your school, please reach out to ip@hsmoffice.com.