The CCJ as a court of first instance for intellectual property; revisiting the idea Published on September 15, 2015
By Abiola Inniss From Caribbean news Now In January 2010, this column first proposed the idea of the CCJ as a court of first instance for intellectual property (IP) matters. In the years following its publication, there has been a…
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