Advocacy/oriGIn Alerts

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 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

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

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

In July 2019, the law amending part IV of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation and introducing the protection of geographical indications (scheme which will be available together with the existing appellations

With respect to the EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (EUSFTA), the registration phase of GIs (which in this case followed the end of the negotaitions) had started in March. Concerned groups can follow the status

On June 11, the Commission published a roadmap regarding the conclusion of a bilateral agreement on GIs between the EU and Mongolia. oriGIn has submitted its comments, reiterating its key principles for GIs

On 28 June, the EU and Mercosur reached a political deal for a trade agreement . Concerning GIs, 355 EU products’ names will be protected the agreement in the 4 Mercosur countries (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay

On 30 June, the EU-Vietnam trade agreement was signed by the parties. Provision concerning GIs can be found in sub-section 3 of the Intellectual Property Chapter (page 21): The GIs included in the lists

On 26 June, Albania became the third country (following Cambodia and Côte d’Ivoire) to accede to the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement on Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications. With the process almost

Recent court decisions in the United States – concerning a product labelled as Kona Beer while not being produced in Kona, and fruits and vegetables which labels refereed to a Washington farm while