68 Fort Street, Grand Cayman (Tuesday, 30 April 2019):

Shantel Ritch, Victoria Whittaker and Larissa Bennett of HSM IP Ltd. presented International Trademark Association’s (INTA) Unreal Campaign to over 150 students at the Clifton Hunter High School in North Side on Tuesday, 30 April.

INTA’s
Unreal Campaign is a consumer awareness programme aimed at
educating teenagers about the importance of trade marks, intellectual
property and the dangers of counterfeit products.

Shantel,
Victoria and Larissa are all IP Assistants and explained the
importance of registering trade marks. A trade mark can be a word,
design, service mark, building shape and more. They also stressed the
economic impacts of people purchasing knockoffs and how these
inferior products can affect people’s health as well as safety.

As
part of the presentation, the
students enjoyed a game of “spot a fake”, where they had to guess
between two similar looking products and identify the reasons as to
why one of them was the fake.

HSM
IP is a specialist intellectual property law practice in the Cayman
Islands and this is the fifth time that they have presented INTA’s
Unreal Campaign. The
last presentation took place on 29 November 2018 at the Cayman
Islands Further Education Centre (CIFEC).

“We
are proud to once again put on this presentation for our local
community,” shares HSM IP Managing Partner, Huw Moses. “It is
important to get the word out on the negative effects of counterfeit
products that not only harm business owners but consumers as well.”

IMAGES:

Photo
1: Students
Await INTA’s Unreal Campaign
Photo
2: HSM IP
Assistants (L-R: Victoria
Whittaker,
Shantel Ritch
and Larissa Bennett) Present INTA’s Unreal Campaign