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Dianne Daley McClure

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Dianne Daley McClure

Company Secretary

Dianne Daley McClure LL.B. (Hons), LL.M., Attorney-at-Law is one of the founding partners of FOGA DALEY and the head of the firm’s Intellectual Property (IP) Department. Her practice areas are in the field of trademarks, copyright and related rights, patents and designs and related areas such as IP rights licensing and administration and Entertainment, Media and Sports law.

She is a CIDA scholar and has a Bachelor of Laws Degree with Honours from the University of the West Indies and a Master’s Degree in Comparative Law from McGill University specializing in IP and International Copyright. Her first job in the field of IP was as legal director and head of Jamaica’s Copyright Office in 1995.

Dianne has been a recommended trademark practitioner making the list of recommended Caribbean firms and individual practitioners in World Trademark Review’s (WTR 1000) – a definitive guide to the World’s Leading Trademark Professionals for the past seven (7) years. She is one of only 2 women from the Caribbean to make the list of “IP STARS Top 250 Women in IP for 2017” which recognises female IP practitioners in private practice from around the world who have performed exceptionally for their clients and firms in the past year.

Her professional memberships include the International Association of the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP), the International Trademark Association (INTA), The Global Advertising Lawyers’ Alliance (GALA), the Inter-American Association of Intellectual Property (ASIPI) & the Intellectual Property Caribbean Association (IPCA).

Dianne is the Company Secretary for the Jamaica Music Society (JAMMS) and chairman of the IP Property Committee of the Jamaican Bar Association and the Jamaican Copyright Licensing Agency (JAMCOPY). She has authored several publications on IP including a monograph on Jamaica’s Intellectual Property Laws published in the International Encyclopaedia of Laws, Kluwer Law International (2008) and the Jamaica Chapter on Copyright in Copyright throughout the World, West (2009).

Outside of work, Dianne is a singer and songwriter of Christian music and a Praise & Worship leader at church and is passionate about fulfilling God’s call on her life.