Let s Have An Other Look At The Lisbon

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Let’s Have An Other Look At The Lisbon Agreement Matthijs Geuze WIPO

What’s New? • Membership • Registration Activity • Content of Registrations

26 Member States Africa (6): Algeria, Burkina Faso, Congo, Gabon, Togo, Tunisia America (6): Costa Rica, Cuba, Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru Asia (4): Georgia, Iran (Islamic Rep), Israel, Korea (DPR) Europe (10): Bulgaria, Czech Rep. , France, Hungary, Italy, Moldova, Montenegro, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia

since 2004 Six New Members: Georgia, Iran (Islamic Rep), Korea (DPR), Montenegro, Nicaragua, Peru Recordings: 2004 2005 2006 2007 (Jan-May) – – 16 30 53 23

Content of Registrations • Possibility of Coexistence • Partial Refusals

Content of Registrations • Partial Refusals • Translations

Content of Registrations • Partial Refusals • Dissimilar Products? • Prior Users?

Protection of an Appellation • Country of Origin • Other Countries of the Lisbon Union

Substantive Requirements Protection in the country of origin • Recognition • “Appellation of origin” as defined in Lisbon • “Country of origin” as defined in Lisbon • Demarcation of the area of production

D R P AO QC GE

Legal Effect (1) • Effect of international registration – extension of protection to countries other than the country of origin – indefinite (as long as the appellation is protected in the country of origin) • Except in a country that. . . – issued a refusal (within the prescribed time-limit), or – invalidated the effect of the international registration in its territory

Legal Effect (2) Required level of protection – protection against any usurpation or imitation – reputation – AO cannot be “deemed” to have become generic

Looking Back and Ahead • Records of the Lisbon Diplomatic Conference (1958) • Updating the Lisbon Regulations

THANK YOU Matthijs Geuze WIPO

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