On 9 March, Jamaican Senate approved the “Geographical Indication Bill”, which provides a solid level of protection (modelled around TRIPs article 23) to all GIs. The new law also establishes a “Geographical Indications Advisory Committee” to review GIs applications.
Currently Jamaica has recognized national 9 GIs (See oriGIn Worldwide GIs Compilation ).
This summary has been extracted from an “oriGIn Alert”, which is a service reserved exclusively to oriGIn members.
