Geographical indications for food products : international legal and regulatory perspectives / by Marsha A. Echols.

x, 315 pages ; 25 cm.

9789041125484
9041125485
9789041147363

M 234 MAR.G

"Geographical indications (GIs) for food and other names that connote a characteristic or process together with origin fit in with notions of quality, tradition, and support for local producers that are important for the producers, for an increasing number of consumers, and for local development. However, in attempting to prevent the use of culture for protectionist purposes, the World Trade Organization (WTO) treats geographical indications, like trademarks, as private rights. This affirmation which runs counter to the traditional view that a GI is a communal right lies at the root of a legal stand-off at the WTO between two groups of countries." "Focusing primarily on the Reports of the Panels in the WTO disputes brought by Australia and the United States against the European Communities, this important book explores the meaning of the TRIPS Article 22 and Article 24 commitments, especially as they concern the definition of the term geographical indication and national and most favored nation treatment. The author clarifies the relationship between niche-market geographical indications and the more prevalent (and commercially valuable) trademarks."--BOOK JACKET.

1. Introduction. 2. Food Labelling for Origin and Tradition. 3. Indications of Origin Prior to the TRIPS Agreement. 4. Geographical Indications for Food Products under the TRIPS Agreement and Other Recent Agreements. 5. Geographical Indications under National Law. 6. Making a Geographical Indications System Work: Administration and Financing. 7. Competing Institutional Perspectives: Debating International Standards for Parmesan and Other Cheeses. 8. The Geographical Indications Dispute at the World Trade Organization. 9. The Council for Trade-Related Intellectual Property. 10. Geographical Indications for Food Products and the Doha Development Agenda. 11. Conclusions.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Information Law Series Set.

Austin : Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, c2008.

English

"Geographical indications (GIs) for food and other names that connote a characteristic or process together with origin fit in with notions of quality, tradition, and support for local producers that are important for the producers, for an increasing number of consumers, and for local development. However, in attempting to prevent the use of culture for protectionist purposes, the World Trade Organization (WTO) treats geographical indications, like trademarks, as private rights. This affirmation which runs counter to the traditional view that a GI is a communal right lies at the root of a legal stand-off at the WTO between two groups of countries." "Focusing primarily on the Reports of the Panels in the WTO disputes brought by Australia and the United States against the European Communities, this important book explores the meaning of the TRIPS Article 22 and Article 24 commitments, especially as they concern the definition of the term geographical indication and national and most favored nation treatment. The author clarifies the relationship between niche-market geographical indications and the more prevalent (and commercially valuable) trademarks."--BOOK JACKET.