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My first brush with geographical indications (GIs) was when I joined my firm, K&S Partners, in March 1998. My mentor in the profession, Rajendra Kumar, entrusted me with a trademark opposition to be
Following the conclusion of the EU/China stand-alone GIs Agreement in November, earlier in December the European Commission published the text, which may be subject to further modifications as a result of the legal
On 13 December, the US, Mexico and Canada signed the USMCA. The trade agreement talks had been concluded in October 2018 and an earlier version of the text had been published then. As
On 21 November, the EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (EUSFTA) entered into force. The agreement facilitated the protection in Singapore of 138 EU GIs , which had to go through a national opposition phase. You can
On 6 November, in the contest of the Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT), WIPO hosted an “Information Session” on GIs. Three topics were addressed: Evaluation
On 26 November, the EU deposited with the WIPO its instrument of accession to the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement on Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications. Being the EU the fifth eligible
On the 9th of December, Australia and the EU will commence the sixth round of negotiations relating to the Australia-European Union Free Trade Agreement (AUSEUFTA). The preceding five rounds of negotiations have highlighted
On 18 November 2019, the DG for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs of the European Commission organized in Brussels a workshop to discuss the economic aspects of GI protection for non-agricultural products.
China has gone through a process of reorganization of its intellectual property system. The China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) is now the national authority in charge of GIs. On October 16, according to
On 6 November, China and the EU concluded the negotiations on a stand-alone GIs agreement, which will protect 100 European GIs in China and 100 Chinese GIs in the EU. The Agreement (please note
To fulfil its obligations under the CETA, in 2017 the Canadian government passed the Bill C-30 (“An Act to implement the CETA between Canada and the European Union and its Member States and
Last August, a webinar on the protection of GIs in China was organized by CHINABRAND IP CONSULTING, an associate member of oriGIn. If you have missed it, you can watch the records @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcKPVXhxDIU.
In October 2016, with the support of oriGIn, the Suisse Association of AOP/IGP had organized a seminar in Lausanne to discuss the best practices in Europe on GIs market controls. Italian groups had
In September, the Intellectual Property chapter (including its annexes concerning the list of GIs to be protected under the agreement) of the EU/Mercosur FTA were published for information purposes. The text might undergo
On October 9, the Law No. 123-IX “On Amending Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine Regarding Improving the Legal Protection of Geographical Indications” introduced GIs in the Ukrainian legislation. In line with the definition
At the beginning of October, during the Fifty-Ninth Series of Meetings of the WIPO Assemblies in Geneva, Samoa and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea joined the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement
Key-note speech The Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement and perspectives for the protection of Geographical Indications (GIs) at the international level, Ms. Alexandra Grazioli, Director of the Lisbon Registry, World Intellectual Property
Today in Geneva, during the Fifty-Ninth Series of Meetings of the WIPO Assemblies, oriGIn and the National Institute for the Defense of Competition and Protection of Intellectual Property (INDECOPI) of Peru have signed
Following the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) Judgment in Case C-614/17 earlier this year, in which it found that a name protected in the EU as PDO/PGI may be evoked
