Attorney General (AG) Dale Marshall has emphasised the importance of this region having strong intellectual property protection, especially now with the push for young people to become innovators.Marshall made the comments recently, as he addressed a three-day practical workshop on Intellectual Property Crime, hosted by INTERPOL, USPTO and CARICOM IMPACS, at the Radisson Hotel.The Attorney General said Barbados had invested significant funds to promote innovation among young people in an effort to assist in providing a next generation of world-class innovators and thinkers.“If as a country we invest in our young people, in their training and help them to become the next generation of innovators, we will be failing them, if, as states, we did not ensure that we have strong intellectual property protection for the things they are going to be creating.“I am hoping that a new generation of Barbadians will become producers of things such as robotics; that they will become famous in animation, and that they will become famous … in producing computer programmes or things of the sort. As countries, we are bound to do all that we can to encourage and to protect the products of these very fertile minds,” the Attorney General stated.
