On October 11th, 2017, oriGIn participated in the G7 GI Conference organized, at the occasion of the G7 Ministerial Meeting Agriculture, in Bergamo (Italy). GI producers’ organizations, stakeholders, policymakers and experts from different countries gathered in Bergamo to draw up, commit…
oriGIn is working with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) on the identification of sustainability priorities for GIs. The objective of oriGIn and the FAO is to provide guidelines for those GIs that wish to develop a…
On 27 March oriGIn will organize a side-event at the 37th Session of the WIPO Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT), to take place in Geneva from 27 to 30 March 2017 (See the program ). The…
KEY-NOTE SPEECH Mr. Matteo Taglienti, Head, Directorate of Planning and Commercial Development, U.O. Anti-Counterfeit and Traceability Solutions, Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato S.p.A Mr. Giuseppe Liberatore, Director general, VALORITALIA PANEL I: LEGAL CERTAINTY & COMMERCIAL OPPORTUNITIES IN THE…
In the framework of the 37th Session of the WIPO Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT), oriGIn organized a side-event on “oriGIn compilation of all GIs currently protected in the world: Work in…
From 05 to 7December 2016 oriGIn participated @ XIX Working sessions and Council of “Asociación Interamericana de la Propiedad Intelectual” (ASIPI) held in Buenos Aires (Argentina). Elio De Tullio, associate member of oriGIn, delivered a presentation on “GIs protection at international level“. …
On December 2, oriGIn organized and moderated a panel on “GIs on the Internet: Challenges Related to gTLDs and E-Commerce” at the INTA Digital World Conference in Brussels. The objective of the panel was twofold: On the one hand, the…
24-28/10/2016 – oriGIn @ the “GIs week”, Vientiane (Lao PDR). Fatima AMHERI, President of Association Marocaine de l’indication Géographique de l’Huile d’Argane (AMIGHA) and President of oriGIn, will give a presentation in the “Regional Seminar on the Promotion of Geographical Indications: promoting the…
From 24 to 28 October 2016, a “GIs week” was held in Vientiane (Lao PDR), organized by the Department of Intellectual Property of the Ministry of Science and Technology of Lao PDR, in cooperation with various partners, including oriGIn and…
On October 3 in Geneva, within the framework of the fifty-sixth Series of Meetings of the Assemblies of the Member States of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), oriGIn organized a panel discussion on the “Challenges for Geographical Indications (GIs)…
oriGIn participates @ the Seminar on Controls of geographical indications and traditional specialities organized by the DG Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Commission, Bruxelles (Belgium). Massimo Vittori, Managing Director of oriGIn, will give a presentation on “Controls of…
From 20 to 23 September 2016 oriGIn participated in the MARQUES 30th Annual Conference on “BRANDS versus TRADEMARKS – TRADEMARKS versus BRANDS” which took place in Villaitana, Alicante (Spain). Massimo Vittori, Managing Director of oriGIn, delivered a presentation in the panel on Geographical Indications .…
Protection of Champagne on the Internet , Mr. Charles Goemaere, Head of business and legal affairs, Comité Champagne Parma Ham Enforcement, Mr. Simone Calzi, Head of legal Department, Consorzio del Prosciutto di Parma Geographical indications and domain names – a ccTLD…
oriGIn is a key actor in the global debate on the protection and promotion of GIs. We organize and/or are invited in the major GIs conference, seminars and workshop around the world: 03/10/2016 – oriGIn panel discussion on “Challenges…
In 2015, significant progress was made at the EU level towards the protection of non-agricultural products geographical indications (GIs). On 6 October 2015, the EU Parliament adopted a resolution supporting the establishment of a single European system of protection of…
On 14 March 2016, the event “TTIP & GIs from the point of view of consumers: transparency v. misleading practices”, organized by the Consorzio del formaggio Parmigiano Reggiano, took place at the EU Parliament in Brussels. The event aimed at presenting a…
oriGIn and INTA are interested in having clear and not-conflicting relationship between GIs and trademarks. At the forthcoming INTA’s Geographical Names Conference (visit www.inta.org/2015GI to learn more about the conference program & networking opportunities) oriGIn has been invited to deliver…
Following the Statutary Assembly of oriGIn, on 11 November 2015 an international conference on “Geographical Indications in a Fast Changing world” took place in Fortaleza . The conference tackled some of the most relevant issues to GIs at global level,…
The 7th Statutory General Assembly of oriGIn was held in Fortaleza on 10 November 2015 with the participation of some 60 representatives of GI producers’ groups and other institutions from Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru, Mexico, China, Cameroun, Morocco, Germany, France,…
