The Standing Committee on Trademark, Industry and Trademark Law (SCT) is responsible for the development of international source law. These are protected by the Paris Agreement and the Madrid Source Agreement. The Paris Convention also protects the state`s coat of arms. Names of origin and geographical indications benefit from an international registration and protection system based on the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement. It should also be mentioned that the protection provided under the Lisbon Agreement does not exclude protection that might already exist in a Member State under other international treaties, such as the Paris Convention, the Madrid Agreement on the Suppression of False or Misleading Claims about the Origin of Goods or the Agreement on The Commercial Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (Members), under bilateral or regional agreements or under national legislation or judicial decision. This standing committee is a WIPO body. It brings together experts from all over the world and is responsible for normative work in the field of international law through source indications, geographical indications (GIs) and state coats of arms. It also encourages the harmonization of national laws. Switzerland is actively involved in TBS`s work with a delegation of IPI specialists. WIPO also manages the Lisbon Agreement (1958) on the protection of appellations of origin and their international registration, which Switzerland has not ratified, as well as the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement on appellations of origin and geographical indications (2015).
These contracts create a register of origin and international geographical indications and impose a high level of protection. The Geneva Act came into force on 26 February 2020. www.wipo.int/lisbon/en/Lisbon Express database During its meeting on 5 June 2020, the Federal Council approved Switzerland`s proposal for accession to the Geneva Act and submitted it to Parliament. This membership will allow beneficiaries of Swiss appellations of origin and geographical indications to benefit from protection abroad through a single low-cost procedure. In this case, the EU is now exclusively responsible in the areas of the Geneva Act. As the European Court of Justice has already indicated in its judgment of 25 October 2017 in C-389/15, the Geneva Act is essentially aimed at facilitating and regulating trade relations between the EU and third countries and can have direct and immediate consequences on these exchanges, so that these negotiations fall within the exclusive competence conferred on the Union by Article 3, paragraph 1, of the EUSF in the area of common trade policy. This means that the European Commission is solely responsible for applications for international registration of geographical indications for products originating in an EU Member State. Latha is a partner of the Indian ip boutique K-S Partners. An Alumnus of the Bangalore NLSIU, Latha`s practice in the firm focuses on the pursuit and application of trademarks, domain names and copyrights, as well as consulting and transaction work on them. One area of their practice also focuses on the protection of geographical indications.
Over the years, Latha has published several articles on trademarks, copyrights, geographic indications and data protection, which are available on her company`s website www.knspartners.com. She is currently editor-in-chief of the International Trademark Association`s online guide to „Geographic Indications, Certification Marks and Collection Brands.“ She is also a regular in charge of intellectual property issues in several national and international for a.
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