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She qualified as an Attorney-at-Law in 1990 in Jamaica and holds a Master of Laws Degree in Comparative Law, with specialization in Intellectual Property and International Copyright from McGill University in Quebec, Canada and a Bachelor of Laws Degree with Honours from the University of the West Indies (UWI). She is an Intellectual Property Law Lecturer for the Master of Laws Programme at the Faculty of Law, UWI and a member of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP). She is also a member of the International Trademark Association (INTA) and serves on INTA’s Online Public Education Committee.
Dianne has served on the boards of a number of intellectual property-related institutions. She is the Honourary Secretary for the Jamaican Copyright Licensing Agency (JAMCOPY), Company Secretary for the Jamaica Music Society (JAMMS) and a director of the Intellectual Property Service Centre.. She is a member of the Jamaican Bar Association (JAMBAR) and serves on JAMBAR’s Intellectual Property, Telecommunications, Broadcasting and Technology and Alternative Dispute Resolution Committees. She is also a director of the Digicel Foundation Jamaica and a member of the Lawyers’ Christian Fellowship.
Her previous appointments include Acting Chairman of the Jamaica Intellectual Property Office (JIPO) Advisory Board (2006-2007) where she also served as Deputy Chairman since 2005 and as a member from the Board’s inception in 2002; Deputy Chairman of Jamaica’s Copyright Tribunal (2000-2003); Special Advisor on Intellectual Property to the Minister of Industry, Commerce & Technology and Coordinator for the establishment of JIPO, (2000- 2001) and head of Jamaica’s Copyright Unit (1995-2000).
Dianne has represented the Government of Jamaica as an Intellectual Property expert at many regional, hemispheric and international meetings and negotiations in the context of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the Free Trade Area of the Americas, the Commonwealth Secretariat, UNESCO and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). She was lead expert for Jamaica in the negotiations of the WIPO "Internet" Treaties in December 1996 and was a Vice President of the WIPO Diplomatic Conference on the Protection of Audiovisual Performances in December 2000. Dianne has also worked as an intellectual property consultant for WIPO, the United Kingdom Commission on IP Rights and the Commonwealth Secretariat.
Dianne is published internationally in various journals including Copyright World, Intellectual Asset Management, IP Value: Building and Enforcing Intellectual Property Value, the International Law Office and Managing Intellectual Property.
Check the PUBLICATIONS page for links to some of her publications.
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