Implications of international treaty on Geographical Indications

By Marsha Cadogan ( July 27, 2020, 8:24 AM EDT) -- Earlier this year ushered in by relatively little global fanfare, the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origins and Geographical Indications came into force (GI treaty). With a birth date of 2015, it is a relatively new treaty, and had no legal standing until a specific number of countries had joined. Administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization, the GI treaty became effective after the fifth member (the European Union) joined the agreement....