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Mrz 29, 2011
George C. J. Moore, Caribbean Trademark Services, USA
Katherine Van Deusen, Caribbean Trademark Services, USA
First published by ITMA review

Birth of Curacao, St. Maarten and BES as Caribbean Juri...


George C. J. Moore, Caribbean Trademark Services, USA, Katherine Van Deusen, Caribbean Trademark Services, USA, First published by ITMA reviewThe world of IP protection welcomes the birth of three new trademark jurisdictions in the Caribbean – Curaçao, Sint Maarten, and the BES Islands (also known as the Caribbean Netherlands). Reminiscent of Aruba’s breakaway from the Netherlands Antilles in 1986, the emergence of these three new island jurisdictions flows from the wake of the now dissolved Netherlands Antilles.

On October 10, 2010, the Netherlands Antilles ceased to exist and simultaneously Curaçao, St. Maarten, and BES were constituted as separate jurisdictions – all with provisions, of course, for succession to and establishment of intellectual property rights.
Any or all of the three new jurisdictions may now concern trademark owners because their trademark registrations in the Netherlands Antilles have become a nullity.  read more