Tag: Geographical Indications

Federal Court in Australia Grants Injunction Restraining Unlawful Use of Scotch Whisky

10 December, 2019 News

Titilayo Adebola *Originally published by IPKat on 09 December 2019 On 15 November 2019, a Federal Court in Melbourne, Australia, granted a series of permanent injunctions restraining Rex D’Aquino …

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Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration

26 November, 2019 News

The European Union (EU) deposited its instrument of ratification to the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration 1958 …

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Worldwide Symposium on Geographical Indications

10 July, 2019 Events

The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and the Portuguese Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), with the support of the European Union Intellectual Property (EUIPO), jointly organised the 2019 edition …

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Geographical Indications are a curious item amongst that disparate bundle of legal exclusionary rights known as intellectual property. Not only do they have nothing to do with innovation, originality, or for that matter anything at all that is shiny and new; on the contrary, they counter innovation by carving out a space in the marketplace for venerable old products made- in large part- in old ways.

Graham Dutfield. Foreword: Place Branding Experiences: Perspectives from Intellectual Property Owners, Users and Lawyers.