Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
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INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL
INDICATIONS REGIMES
A. PRECURSORS TO TRIPS
2.01
2. Geographical indications and trade
marks
1. Paris Convention for the Protection
of Industrial Property 1883
2.53
2.03
3. Additional protection for
geographical indications for wines
and spirits
2. Madrid Agreement for the Repression
of False or Deceptive Indications of
Source of Goods 1891
2.63
2.11
4. TRIPS revision
2.84
3.
International Convention on the Use
of Appellations of Origin and
Denominations of Cheeses ('Stresa
Convention') 1951
5. The TRIPS GIs disputes
2.94
6. TRIPS enforcement
2.101
7. TRIPS rights under European law
2.183
2.16
4. Lisbon Agreement for the Protection
of Appellations of Origin and their
Registration 1958 2.21
5. The International Wine Organization 2.32
C. REVIVAL OF THE LISBON AGREEMENT
2.191
1. Protocol to the Lisbon Agreement
2.191
2. WIPO proposals
2.192
D. BILATERAL AND PLURILATERAL
AGREEMENTS
B. THE WTO TRIPS AGREEMENT
2.39
2.217
1. Protection of geographical
indications
2.40
A. PRECURSORS TO TRIPS
The GIs provisions of the TRIPS Agreement were anticipated as early as the
1883 Paris Convention on Industrial Property, which, as will be seen below
imposed merely general obligations in relation to 'indications of source or
appellations of origin' which were undefined terms. The Madrid Agreement for
the Repression of False or Deceptive Indications of Source of Goods 1891,
which was enacted as a special treaty under the Paris Convention, contained
more specific obligations, but it was not until the Lisbon Agreement on the
Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration 1958
that at least appellations of origin were defined and elements of this definition
were carried forward into the definition of GIs in the TRIPS Agreement.
2.01
Prior to the Lisbon Agreement, the 1951 Stresa Convention proposed a system
for the protection of appellations of origin and designations for cheeses
contained in an annex to the Convention. The Lisbon Agreement, by way of
contrast, envisaged protection of appellations of origin by their registration.
The TRIPS Agreement did not prescribe a preferred method for the protection
2.02
 
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