What do Vidalia onions, Wisconsin cheese, and Kona coffee have that feta cheese, champagne, and cognac do not? The first three products have trademark protection for their brand names (in this case, through U.S. trademark law). The latter three have no brand name protection, but that could change. Protection would become available for the latter products if E.U. proposals to increase protection...

Indonesia is a country blessed with abundant natural resources. This fosters wide variety of biological resources, thus providing range potential wealth in the form agricultural, plantation, cultivation, handicraft and forestry products characterized by each region’s geographical features. The for coffee to be used as Geographical Indication product very large because there are many variants ...

The launch of negotiations for an EU-Australia 'free trade agreement' (FTA) on 18 June 2018 was a confirmation 'like-minded' strong partnership, in which both parties had high hopes ambitious agreement would test the new wave protectionism promoted by Donald Trump.Nonetheless, initial rounds revealed several issues illustrate scale challenge to be addressed. One such example issue Geographical ...

Abstract Consumers are increasingly demanding information regarding the characteristics of products, their place origin and methods production. A Geographical Indication (GI) can be understood as a way to meet these demands, it protects product, well its characteristics. In addition contributing territorial development, GI signs have potential add value products help producers become more compe...

A geographical indication (GI) seal granted to a product certifies its territorial origin as well the link between quality and human natural characteristics of production environment (terroir). An existing challenge in process setting up GI for is delimiting geographic area that properly represents terroir generates expected development after grant this protection seal. This article presents to...