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Title
CAIPO -Corporate Affairs and Intellectual Property Office, Barbados
Description
General Information
The Corporate Affairs and Intellectual Property Office (CAIPO) is a department of the Ministry of Industry and International Business and is recognized as one of the important pillars of Barbados' domestic and international industry and commerce. The Office is primarily responsible for keeping and maintaining a wide variety of business and commercial records which are vital to the orderly conduct of business in and from Barbados.
The Department currently administers and/or has responsibilities under thirty (30) enactments and some ten (10) international agreements and conventions. These enactments confer numerous responsibilities on the Office in relation to, inter alia, the incorporation and registration of companies (both domestic and external) and the regulation of the commercial activities of international business companies, foreign sales corporations, exempt insurance and management companies, off-shore banks and societies with restricted liability.
The Office is also responsible for the registration and maintenance of public records relating to business names, limited partnerships, newspapers, pharmacies, charities, bills of sale and company charges and for the grant and registration of patents, trade and service marks, industrial designs and other intellectual property rights.
