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The Place of Indications of Geographical Origin in the Intellectual Property System

Vadim Mantrov

subject

Geographical indicationGoods and servicesCommerceGeographyPoint (typography)International treatyEconomic geographyIntellectual propertyUnfair competition

description

As indicated in the introductory chapter of this book, different designations are used for denoting goods and services in the trade which are not congeneric from the legal point of view. Among those designations, there are also those which contain a reference to a particular geographical place, i.e. geographical designations. This situation is successfully revealed in materials of one international conference by indicating that many designations which are used in commerce may contain a geographical reference (yet their legal nature is different) by distinguishing three different groups of such designations:

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2014-01-01
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05690-6_3