The workshop aims to provide participants with the opportunity to learn the processes involved in registering a company or business, and their attendant intellectual properties.
Objectives
The workshop is being presented as part of the EC/BIP's objectives to assist potential and established exporters to access standardised and value-added business information that will empower entrepreneurs and firms to increase their performance and profitability.
Topics to be covered during the workshop include: How to register/renew a business name; what is a cooperative; what does a trade mark do; and, intellectual property: its benefit to a business.
The workshop's staging coincides with the JIPO's Intellectual Property Week celebrations, between April 20 and 26, which is being observed under the theme 'Creativity: Protect. Collect. Respect!'
Participants at the workshop will be afforded the opportunity to interface with intellectual-property attorneys and practitioners regarding innovations in business-registration practices and benefits.
Activities get under way at 8:30 a.m. and will run through to midday. Interested persons are invited to register online at www.ecbip.com or via email to ecbip@jti.org.jm.
$26.17 million project
The EC/BIP is one of 12 components of the Private Sector Development Programme (PSDP) - a $26.17 million project aimed at contributing to the facilitation of employment creation and an enhanced quality of life for all Jamaicans. A five-year project, jointly financed by the European Union and the Government of Jamaica, the PSDP comes to an end in December.
Currently, the EC/BIP has 13 satellite locations islandwide, which are operated through the Jamaica Business Development Corporation, the Jamaica Ex-porters' Association and JTI.
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