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The term "geographic indications" will be used in this Note to include both protected designations of origin ("PDOs") and protected geographic indications ("PGIs").
The distinct systems they have developed to protect geographic indications reveal more than just different approaches to foodstuff protection.
The European Union says no, and has had laws for years reserving the use of many such geographic indications exclusively to farmers and producers in the associated places.
Furthermore, even those regimes that differentiate between PDOs and PGIs extend protections to both, thereby effectively conflating the two into one category of geographic indications.
Two entities that offer greater protection to geographic indications of foodstuffs than that provided under Article 22 are the European Union ("EU") and the United States.
While a comparison of intellectual property protection may not appear to implicate federal issues, marks protecting geographic indications are unique in that they are by their definition localized.
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Wines and spirits are offered additional protection under Article 23, which protects against any use for products not originating in the location indicated by the geographic indication.
These lentils won the European Union's IGP (Protected Geographic Indication) recognition.
All other products, including foodstuffs, fall under Article 22, which only protects against the misleading use of a geographic indication.
This province produces selected varieties of common bean highly appreciated by their quality that warrants a Protected Geographic Indication (PGI).
Mr. Cravinho noted that Europe was pushing its own geographic indication cases in India as part of negotiations for a free trade agreement.
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