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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Fall and Decline

Vadim Mantrov

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Character (mathematics)Patent officeMarket economyGoods and servicesScope (project management)media_common.quotation_subjectBusinessFunction (engineering)media_common

description

Similarly as in case of trade marks, IGOs have their rises and falls depending on the intensity of their use, character of such usage, and the activity of interested persons. Also as with trade marks, rises and falls of IGOs are characterised in terms of the level of their recognition among consumers influencing the scope of their protection. For these reasons, IGOs may be protected insofar they are capable of fulfilling their function, i.e. to distinguish the geographical origin of goods and services in question. Only when a particular geographical designation fulfils that function of an IGO, it is possible to discuss its protection within any of the protection models of IGOs.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2014-01-01
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05690-6_4