Apply In-Person

1. You should first conduct a search to make sure that there is no patent registered that is similar to yours. You can conduct the search by going to the Jamaica Intellectual Property Office (JIPO), 4th Floor, PCJ Building, 36 Trafalgar Road, Kingston 10 to make the search since all Patents stored at the Jamaica Intellectual Property Office are available for searching by the public for any purpose.
2. Once you have ascertained that there is no other patent identical to yours, publishes a Notice of Application in the Gazette and a daily newspaper once a week for four consecutive weeks.
3. Then make a petition as describe in form A in the Patents Act addressed to the to the Governor General of Jamaica along all the required documents including the Declaration and Specification of the patent in duplicate. You can obtain the petition, Declaration and Specification form the Jamaica Intellectual Property Office website:Link or via the links provided in the “Documents to Use” section below
4. File the complete application to the Intellectual property office and pay the required application fee and you will be issued an acknowledgement receipt for the application file.
5. Then the intellectual property office will forward the patent to the to the Government Chemist, or the Executive-Director of the Bureau of Standards for technical examination. The examiners will assess whether the invention is new and useful that is, whether it will provide public utility. If these conditions are met, the application is recommended for grant of Patent.
6. Then the patent will be processed and registered according to the patents act and issued Form of Letters Paten

• Petition: This is the formal request to the Governor General for grant of Letters paten
• Declaration: This is a sworn statement made by the inventor or his assignee in the presence of a Justice of the Peace that to the best of his knowledge, he is the true and first inventor and that the invention is not in use by any other person or persons.
• Specification (in duplicate): This is the written description of the invention.
• If the application is not being filed by the inventor, the following documents may also be required Power of Attorney, Assignment and Affidavit.

Jamaica Intellectual Property Office
Address:18 Trafalgar Road,Kingston 10 Jamaica, West Indies
Tel: , 876.946-1300, 946-0789, 946-9216
Fax:876.927-6744
Email: info@jipo.gov.jm
For Patent: patent@jipo.gov.jm
Website: Link

A patent is eligible for registration if the following conditions are met:

• Novelty (not known or used in the island before)
• Public utility

• Fifteen dollars

• A Patent is valid for 14 years from the date it was granted.

• Petition: Link
• Specification: Link
• Declaration: Link

• Letters of Patent: Link

• The average period from filing to grant of patent is three (3) years.

Videos explaining the procedure or to fill the applications.
Attach videos using the following tag <&video type='website'>video ID|width|height<&/video&> from external websites.
Please remove the '&' inside the tags during implementation.
Website = allocine, blip, dailymotion, facebook, gametrailers, googlevideo, html5, metacafe, myspace, revver,
sevenload, viddler, vimeo, youku, youtube
width = 560, height = 340, Video ID = Can be obtained from the URL of webpage where the video is displayed.
e.g In the following url 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0US7oR_t3M' Video ID is 'Y0US7oR_t3M'.

• Note that you are required and must publishes a Notice of Application in the Gazette and a daily newspaper once a week for four (4) consecutive weeks before you are granted a patent
• It is high recommended that you use the assistance of a qualified lawyer to assist you in the registration of the patent

Things that may NOT be patented:

• Methods for performing Mental acts and Mathematical Algorithms or formulas,
• Naturally occurring things,
• Scientific principles,
• Schemes
• Rules and playing games
• Methods doing business
• Programs for computers
• Business Methods
• and Weapons

• Name
• Address
• Title of invention
• Date
• Signature

• A patent will protect your innovation against being claimed by other people and it give you the right to own the innovation

• Patent act: Link

Please explain what are other uses of obtaining this document/certificate.
e.g. Birth Certificate can be used as proof of identity.

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